"I'm driving now. Driving away from the past and everything that was ever in it up to the very last second. It's hard to breathe and I tell myself that everything happens for a reason."

Amaryllis Brown is a high school student with a past and present that threatens to strangle her and not let go. At eleven, her mother dies, leaving her alone with her abusive and vicious father, Jarvis.

Looking for a safe haven away from the sexual slavery in which her father has branded her, she finds it at school in her teacher, Mr. Wells. Though Mr. Wells is an improvement from the violence of her...