{"product_id":"the-bondage-of-innocents-9781636985664","title":"The Bondage of Innocents","description":"\u003cb\u003eTime is ticking ... Can a lonely sixteen-year-old girl escape the clutches of human traffickers before she's sold off to the highest bidder?\u003c\/b\u003eWhen Lindy Montgomery's mother dies, she's left without friends or companionship until she meets a mysterious young woman in a sandwich shop who teaches her how to make herself more alluring to the opposite sex.Lindy's so-called boyfriend takes her on a weekend trip under the guise of celebrating his birthday. The real reason for the trip turns out to be much more sinister. He drops her off at a hunting preserve, where she and other young girls are to be sold into sex slavery.Nearby, the citizens of a small Mississippi town are oblivious to the evil in their midst. A favorite son has returned to town after becoming wealthy as a tech owner and investor. Concerned about the property on which the hunting preserve sits, and full of questions about the suspicious deaths of his wife and child in a car crash and his mother in a house fire on the same day, he employs a local lawyer to help him figure out what's going on.Can they solve the mystery before Lindy is lost forever?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeam, J. Stephen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eJ. Stephen Beam\u003c\/b\u003e, a resident of Sumrall, Mississippi, is a retired physician who has taken up his passion for writing fiction. \u003ci\u003eThe Bondage of Innocents\u003c\/i\u003e is his second published novel, although he has also authored or coauthored articles for the \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Mississippi State Medical Association\u003c\/i\u003e and has contributed a chapter for a textbook focused on the field of athletic training. He has appeared on local TV many times, most recently to discuss his first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Death Letter\u003c\/i\u003e, a work that was well received and sold out its first printing. He has dreamed of writing novels since his sixth-grade year when he began to read voraciously.","brand":"Morgan James Fiction","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51589860917522,"sku":"9781636985664","price":12.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_876d6056-e527-4626-b01b-0882ad3406ca.jpg?v=1756810949","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-bondage-of-innocents-9781636985664","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}