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A Thread Unbroken chronicles the journey of two courageous girls abducted from home.

In an online article, I read about a woman who was abducted from home as a child, sold to a family and raised to be their son’s bride. Later in life, she tracked her original family and was reunited.

This sparked the story of Chai and Josi for me, as the subject of bride trafficking in Asia is captivating, and one I want to raise awareness about.

Chai is one of the girls in my story and the one I’m most partial to.

Unlike her best friend who is timid and feels hopeless, Chai has an unbreakable courageous spirit and will not give up on her hopes of going home.

My ‘other job’ is advocating for children in orphanages, and I’m able to do that with my writing.

It all blends nicely together and many real stories depicting real people are the flame that starts my creative juices going.

I am currently working on a series called “The Scavenger’s Daughters“, inspired by the true story of a man in China who while doing his day labor of collecting trash, picked up over a dozen abandoned girls and took them in. Children that society has deemed less than trash because of their gender became beloved daughters to him.

While a bit different than that of the real man, it is his story that sparked ‘The Scavenger’s Daughters‘ idea for me.

My books have been compared to those of Lisa See and though I have a long way to go to ever earn such a compliment, it is something I will continue to aspire to.