Nobody's Rose

In the endless noise of a great city, a child slips through the cracks. Posey is seven years old, or maybe eight, she stopped counting when her mother stopped breathing. Now she wanders the streets alone, invisible to the thousands passing by, surviving on scraps and the kind of quiet desperation no child should know. When a policeman finally stops, not to move her along, but to ask where she lives, something shifts. This simple question, the first one anyone has asked her in weeks, becomes the crack in her armor. What follows is a story of transformation: from the gutters and doorways to something like a home, something like hope. Nobody's Rose is a tender, unflinching portrait of childhood poverty and the small mercies that save a life. It's for readers who want to feel something true, who believe in the power of one person seeing another.