The Unbroken
The Unbroken
Book Two of the Sunsets Trilogy
On Labor Day weekend 2019, fourteen-year-old Gwen Martin is celebrating her birthday at Panama City Beach with her family - a perfect September weekend that ends in an instant when she disappears from a public beach fifty yards from the people who love her. What follows is a story that unfolds across five years and two parallel journeys - one of survival, one of relentless pursuit.
Gwen enters a trafficking network designed to erase everything she is. Moved through warehouses, catalog videos, and online auctions, she clings to the one weapon no one can take from her - her name. Guided by a boy named Jesse Fields who teaches her that hope is not weakness but the strongest thing there is, Gwen learns to survive the unsurvivable while keeping others alive alongside her.
Detective Dexter Franco - Gwen's uncle and a twenty-year law enforcement veteran - refuses to let his niece become a statistic. Following leads through informants, shadow networks, and moral lines he cannot uncross, he eventually goes deep undercover in New Orleans inside the very criminal infrastructure that holds the answers he has been chasing for years. He searches three miles from where she is kept and does not know it.
The Unbroken is a novel about what trafficking actually looks like - not from the outside but from inside the system - told with unflinching honesty and profound compassion. It is a story about faith tested beyond endurance, about the names we carry when everything else is stripped away, and about the families who refuse to stop looking no matter the cost.
For readers of The Sunsets at the River's Edge, Gwen's story continues here - darker, deeper, and ultimately a testament to the unbreakable human spirit.
This novel contains mature themes related to human trafficking and is intended for adult readers
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