TRADED

She thought she was heading toward a better life. She didn't know she was being sold.Fifteen-year-old Lena dreams of escaping her crumbling village and her family's poverty. When a woman offers her a job in the city-good pay a safe place a fresh start-she says yes. But within hours the truth unravels. Lena isn't being hired.She's been traded.Thrust into a hidden network of traffickers and captors Lena's life is shattered. Her days become a cycle of fear coercion and silence. But deep inside she refuses to disappear. With the help of another captive and a stranger willing to risk everything Lena begins plotting her escape-and reclaiming her voice.Based on real-life trafficking cases and survivor testimonies Traded is a gripping novel of exploitation survival and the power of a girl who refuses to be forgotten.For readers of Sold by Patricia McCormick and Girls Like Us by Rachel Lloyd this story shines a necessary light on one of the darkest crimes in our world.