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 citygood pay, a safe place, a fresh startshe 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 escapeand 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.

Because Traded is more than a storyit's a truth we don't talk about enough. It peels back the polished lies of trafficking networks in the Western world: how they prey on ambition, exploit silence, and turn girls into commodities behind closed doors and legal front doors. Through Nadia's voice, readers are immersed in the emotional, physical, and psychological reality of traffickingnot as a statistic, but as a lived experience. This book doesn't just expose a system. It gives that system a name, a face, a fight. It's for people who want to understand the horror, but more importantly, witness the strength of survival and resistance. Buy Traded if you believe stories can change policy. Buy it if you want to be part of a world that sees survivors not as broken, but as brave. Buy it because knowing the truth is the first act of justice.

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Claire Smith is a rising voice in science fiction, celebrated for her emotionally rich narratives and atmospheric worldbuilding. With a talent for weaving together speculative science, psychological depth, and suspense, she has carved out a unique space in genre fiction. Claire's work often explores the blurred lines between humanity and technology, consciousness and identity, love and survival. Her breakout novel, Death Calling, blends horror and hard sci-fi into a haunting story about grief, alien intelligence, and the cost of bravery in a collapsing world. She draws inspiration from real-world science, abandoned cities, cosmic horror, and the quiet resilience of human emotion. When she's not writing, Claire can be found sketching alien tech in her notebook, binge-watching cerebral sci-fi shows, or wandering through misty woods with her dog. Claire is passionate about storytelling that lingersstories that ask deep questions, unsettle gently, and stay with you long after the last page is turned.