She tells her story straight out, no holds barred, just as she remembers it. Gifted with the ability to recall details of personalities, events, and conversations, Jade reveals a reality that will be unknown to many of her readers. She learned to sell her body in the strip clubs and massage parlors of Toronto and Montreal in order to survive. Following a path many have taken before, pushed along by her abusive boyfriend, Jade found herself in the sex trade. When the first serious love of her life entered the picture at age 15, that relationship became the center of everything. Addictions, tangled personal relationships, social workers, and prison terms became everyday facts. Growing up between two of Halifax's predominantly black neighborhoods, Jade was raised in communities plagued by social problems. It wasn't until she was removed from her family at age 11 that she felt something was wrong. Jade Brooks grew up like any other kid - she played with friends, lovingly teased and was teased by her siblings, and excelled at school. Learning of the fate of Ahalya and Sita, Clarke makes it his personal mission to rescue them, setting the stage for a riveting showdown with an international network of ruthless criminals. There, his conscience awakens as he sees firsthand the horrors of the trade in human flesh, and the corrupt judicial system that fosters it. Halfway across the world, Washington, D.C., attorney Thomas Clarke faces his own personal and professional crisis-and makes the fateful decision to pursue a pro bono sabbatical working in India for an NGO that prosecutes the subcontinent's human traffickers. They are abducted almost immediately and sold to a Mumbai brothel owner, beginning a hellish descent into the bowels of the sex trade. With almost everyone they know suddenly erased from the face of the earth, the girls set out for the convent where they attend school. When a tsunami rages through their coastal town in India, 17-year-old Ahalya Ghai and her 15-year-old sister Sita are left orphaned and homeless. Corban Addison leads readers on a chilling, eye-opening journey into Mumbai's seedy underworld-and the nightmare of two orphaned girls swept into the international sex trade.
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