Forced To Trust

At thirty-one, Amanda was a woman who had it allathe man with the good job, the house, the car. She hated living in Oregon but they were about to make the move back to California and her friends, before she was brutally murdered. Alex is a sixteen-year-old with street smarts and knows the ropes. Sheas been on her own since her mother left her. One fateful night, doing what she knows to survive, sheas caught stealing and winds up befriending a social worker and her boyfriend. Once they start doing some digging Alex is thrown into turmoil as her past comes back to haunt her, a past that she doesnat remember too well and may hold the keys to the mystery of a murder, as well as herself. Will she learn how to trust anyone but herself before itas too late?