Rachel is eighteen years old and ready to start college Her sixteen year old adopted sister Olivia is ready to start Harvard. Both girls are extremely intelligent. Then Olivia comes up missing without a trace Rachel decides to go undercover as an underage teenage runaway. Rachel visits the Transcendence House - a runaway shelter Olivia had volunteered for. Father Massey is the founder of the shelter and says he has no idea where Olivia is but Rachel feels he is hiding something. Detective John McKenna has Olivia’s case. He has a teenage daughter of his own so his heart is into this. McKenna is afraid Olivia might become one of the victims of gruesome killings of underage prostitutes The detective warns Rachel not to get involved but Rachel doesn’t listen. Rachel learns Olivia is a prostitute and making porn movies. Rachel also learns Olivia has a twin in Thailand who is an underage sex slave. Rachel is determined to also rescue Olivia’s twin Rachel decides to take a job as a stripper in the same sex club Olivia had worked at. Rachel finds Sonia who knew Olivia but to get Sonia to help her Rachel has to pose as an underage stripper in pedophiles homes. Olivia was abducted by a killer who by a killer who auctions the torture and death of underage girls to the highest bidder online.Rachel does find Olivia but now the killer is after her.
This is a great story but really gritty and dark and very realistic. I cringed at a lot of the story but continued as I just had to know how it ended. How sad that a lot of the evil of this story are rich, influential even pillars.of society. I felt this could truly happen behind closed doors.I choked up several times. This was a great book with a great plot. This story keeps your interest right until the very end. I loved Rachel’s determination to find her sister but maybe she should have let undercover cops do the investigation instead of herself. But I can understand. I can’t say I loved all of this story but it was because of what the subject matter was about but I can say this was well worth reading and I highly recommend.