Daughters: Emma Gets Payback: Emma Gets Payback

by James W. Nelson

Overview

Emma, 18 (originally appeared in Daughters, Book 1, The Heartbreak of Human Trafficking.) Six months have gone by. She and her new best friend, Alexis, leave the safety of Abundance, Montana, and the home of her foster father, Bailey Forbes, to head 200 miles back out into the cold world. Emma's college goal is Child Psychology and Criminal Justice, so that she can help other young girls in trouble. The University of Montana, Wyman, should be safe. After all, it's a university, with security guards and campus police, and professors, and many other adults to look after the new students.All the other young girls rescued have been living in Bailey's house plus Bailey's employer, Lance's house, while they get their lives back in order. By the end of the six months most of the girls have either returned to their parents, or have a job at Abundance, and have rented a house with the option to buy.Bailey and Heather (now recovered from her bullet wound) are planning their wedding. Everybody is happy and moving forward with their lives.Unfortunately, Emma's past comes back to haunt her right there on the college campus. Alexis tells her she should call Bailey, but Emma determines to take care of things herself.****Review:4.0 out of 5 stars Four Stars, July 23, 2014By Amazon Customer (Kindle Edition)Good

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781492733072
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	09/21/2013
Series:	Daughters , #2
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.38(d)

About the Author

James W. Nelson was born in a little farmhouse on the prairie in eastern North Dakota in 1944. Some doctors made house calls back in those days. He remembers kerosene lamps, bathing in a large galvanized tub, and their phone number was a long ring followed by four short ones, and everybody in the neighborhood could rubberneck. (Imagine that today!)
James has been telling stories most of his life. Some of his first memories happened during recess in a one-room country schoolhouse near Walcott, ND. His little friends, eyes wide, would gather round and listen to his every hastily-imagined word. It was a beginning. Fascinated by the world beginning to open, he remembers listening to the teacher read to all twelve kids in the eight grades.
He was living in that same house on the land originally homesteaded by his great grandfather, when a savage tornado hit in 1955 and destroyed everything. They rebuilt and his family remained until the early nineteen-seventies when diversified farming began changing to industrial agribusiness (not necessarily a good thing.) He spent four years in the US Navy during the Vietnam War (USS Carbonero and USS Archerfish.)
After the navy he worked many jobs and finally has settled on a few acres exactly two and one half miles straight west of the original farmstead, ironically likely the very spot where the 1955 tornado first struck, which sometimes gives him a spooky feeling.
This novel, Daughters, Book 2, Emma Gets Payback, along with Book 1, the Heartbreak of Human Trafficking, is a departure from his usual writing fare. He thinks the American public should be made more aware of what happens/can happen to abducted children, runaways, throwaways, street children...and, yes, even the so-called safe places of our schools, from middle to college, are not safe.