WAYNESVILLE, N.C. - s4story -- After Mallory Shields graduates from college in her idyllic Midwestern hometown, she embarks on an adventure with her best friend Jenna, taking a gap year to explore the other side of the world. Their journey quickly takes an unexpected turn, and the two young women find themselves in danger and exposed to crime, abuse, and the most dehumanizing conditions possible.
Forced into the horrific world of human sex trafficking, and fighting to return to their lives and families back home, the women struggle navigating a corrupt system and injustice beyond their control. Faced with the loss of time, betrayal, and extraordinary guilt, Mallory learns she must conjure strength she never knew possible and make hard compromises to become her true self.
This thrilling tale follows their individual experiences as captives and how those circumstances impact the future and relationships they long to return to.

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The determination and strong will of the leading characters gives the reader a sense of how honesty, regret, time, and redemption work together to bring hope to a difficult situation as the characters discover what friendship and reclamation really mean.
About the Author
Lisa Clonch Tschauner is an educator, business consultant, and researcher who has previously written and published non-fiction, business-centric work including The Small Business Guide to Customer Service Business Relationships. She is the owner and founder of Open for Business Magazine, a regional publication. Tschauner is also the founder of the RE-Write online writing community featuring pieces of prose, poetry, essays, and reflections. Reclamation is her debut novel.

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