Silver in the Hacky Sack
READING AGE 16+
Nell Vance is fifteen, and the only thing she has ever been able to count on is her mother's hand on her forehead and her sisters' weight against her side.
When her uncle's strap puts her in the dirt, she wakes with a right hand that burns when it touches something valuable. She doesn't know what it means. She knows the doctor wants money, and there is a silver coin hidden in an old toy that no one in the family will talk about.
Nell starts selling eggs. Then scrap. Then silver. Every dollar is a small mercy and a new danger. Her grandmother wants her quiet. The county wants its cut. The men who buy and sell want to know where a fifteen-year-old gets silver.
What Nell wants is to keep her sisters fed and her mother safe, and to walk out of that house without leaving them behind.
This is not a romance. It is a story about who you save when you can't save everyone.
I wrote this for readers who want the ache of family love with a ledger underneath.
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She stood in the middle of the room until the trailer had run out of hearing down the lane, and then she stayed where she was a while longer, because the driver could still change his mind at the turn and come back, and she did not want to be standing out in the open if he did.
The room was the way her mother had left it. The……
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