NOVEL 02 YT

Haley is 24, and for eight months her only home has been her late mother's old Honda Civic. After her father died, her stepfather Kent quietly drained the college fund her parents built for her, chased her mother's life insurance, and on her 23rd birthday took her bedroom door off its hinges and handed her a list of house rules signed by him and his two kids. She walked out with a backpack and nowhere to go. Then, at two in the morning on the coldest night of the year, alone in a snowy parking lot, her phone rang. Unknown number. The man on the other end was about to change everything Kent thought he had taken from her.