Dark Child: A Novel
Publisher: Strebor Books
Pub Date: June 30, 2009
ISBN: 159309244X
When poor babies wind up missing, who cares.
Urban Brown, a white man who grew up in the dark recesses of the inner city where he was the victim of torment abuse, abandonment, deception and murder. Urban overcame his horrid past to live a peaceful and prosperous existence in his upper class community. He has everything a man could ask for, a career which he loves, a sprawling estate and a drop dead gorgeous fiancée, Sierra. Then out of the blue he receives a phone call that changes his life.
Jamillah is Urban’s sister and unlike her brother, she wasn’t able to overcome the horrors of her past and turned to drugs to ease the pain. Life of the streets is hard enough but once a baby comes along she tries to sell him on the black market black market. Urban wont hear any of it and he and Sierra resolve to raise the child as their own. But upon further investigation, Urban realizes that his sister is heavily involved in a dark and sinister scheme to steal black babies from poor girls in small, rural towns and sell them to the highest bidders. As Urban digs deeper and deeper into the kidnapping network, he gets dangerously close to the heart of the matter and is disgusted and disheartened by what he discovers. Dark Child is a chilling story about the untold struggles of the disenfranchised that inspiringly illustrates how one man is not able to turn his back on the problems of his former community—even though he so desperately wants to leave that troubled place in his past forever.
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