Available for Pre-Order. Before will ship after 2024. By pre-ordering, you will receive your book one week prior to the official launch day, on other platforms.
Story Info
BEFORE: before the orphanage in Iran, before the human trafficking in Moscow, before stardom in Bollywood, before failing in Hollywood, I was somebody.
book two of the Zoe Series (a four-part series)
Ghita Glimmer flees Bollywood for Hollywood, always glancing over her shoulder. On her own, for the first time, she reconsiders the world with fresh eyes. Ghita indulges a secret sparkle she’s kindled since childhood: Maybe she could love, and be loved.
Ghita has secrets, some sad, some dark, some humiliating. To outsiders, Ghita is a rising starlet, but she suppresses enough self-doubt to paralyze an elephant. Letting go is a fundamental principal of the universe. When she resists, an entire universe conspires against her.
Trafficked women, like Ghita, are desperately trying to get back home, desperate to reclaim what they had . . . before. How will love triumph when unworthiness oozes from every pour in her face? Sometimes, home is a million miles between Now, and Before.
Benefits
Clean Fiction for homeschool teens. Perfect for Christian highschool international perspectives requirements.
If they read, make sure they read books that spark a discussion centered in values and consequences. Before has a broad definition, meaning different things to different women. For a trafficked woman, before means: something ruined, outlawed, “haram”—forbidden by Islamic law. Yet, Unexpectedly, an unscripted happiness presents itself, in the form of Johnny Marconi. But, how will love triumph when unworthiness oozes from every pour in her face?
Discuss it sooner. Give your teen something they will talk about for years.
Although this is fiction, it's based on a true story that started in Noshahr, Iran; continued in Moscow Russia; and concluded in Pomona, CA.
Young Adult / Thriller / RomanceBEFORE: before the orphanage in Iran, before the human trafficking in Moscow, before stardom in Bollywood, before failing in Hollywood, I was somebody.
book two of the Zoe Series (a four-part series)
200 pgs, approx. 48,000 words
5” x 8” x .45” at .75 lbs.
$12.92 paperback + Shipping and Handling (according to region)
ISBN: 979-8-9876254-9-1
LCCN: pending