Never trust a stranger. You hear this over and over as a child. What if the only way forward required you to break that rule? What if it also plunged your life into despair? ******** This is a work of fiction. Names characters, places and incidents either are the product of my imagination or are used fictitiously and any resemblance to actual persons living or dead, business establishments, events, or locales is entirely coincidental. Copyright © 2015 Vaun M Murphrey Cover illustration from public domain from pixabay.com and designed in the ‘Write Behind’ application. All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced, scanned, or distributed in any printed or electronic form without permission. Please do not participate in or encourage piracy of copyrighted materials in violation of author rights.