First published 2014
Pastor Ezekiel Freeman found Abra as an abandoned newborn under a bridge outside Haven. He raised her alongside his son Joshua, her closest friend. Abra grows into a stunning young woman, but the trauma of abandonment leaves deep wounds. A smooth-talking charmer promises her love and fame in Hollywood. She follows him to Tinseltown and reinvents herself as Lena Scott, quickly becoming the hottest new star since Marilyn Monroe. The entertainment industry demands terrible sacrifices from ambitious young women with dreams of stardom. Abra pays the price for fame, destroying every connection to her past life. Success brings her everything she thought she wanted, but Hollywood proves empty and cruel. Now she desperately wants to return to Haven, to the people who truly loved her. The question becomes whether the bridges she burned can ever be rebuilt.
Genres: fiction, drama, romance, family-life, contemporary-romance
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: enemies-to-lovers, found-family, second-chance
Setting: Haven, Hollywood, Tinseltown
Period: 20th-century
480 pages · Hardcover · Tyndale House Publisher
Content warnings: abuse, addiction, emotional-abuse, sexual-content