When the Runner Meets the Fight

YA Action Adventure

     Seventeen-year-old Uriah Fern is running for his life. Having been raised in an expanding sex trafficking ring by the boss himself—a man known only as Culebra—he learned from a young age to do what he was told…even if that meant participating in the capture of new victims. But when Culebra murdered Uriah's mother, Uriah saw his situation with clear eyes and knew he had to get out.

     Exhausted from being on the run, Uriah takes refuge with a family in a rural settlement and is just starting to recover when Culebra catches up to him. When the enemy seals off all chances of escape—not only for him, but for the other settlers—he realizes that his fate is fully in his master's hands. Culebra offers to set him free if he will bring one female captive from among the settlers. If she is threatened, the rest of the settlers will likely do anything to protect her, even if that means surrendering and falling headlong into the horrors of the slave trade.

     Uriah has less than a week to decide. Would it be mercy to hand the people over to a cruel master who is bound to take them anyway? Or is it time to stop running and meet the fight—even if it's his last?

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