A Destiny to Love: The Chronicles of the Great Oak: Book 1

The Chronicles of the Great Oak: Book 1

My name is Melanie Simmons and I've felt out of place and alone my entire crappy life.

My mentally ill mother abandoned me on a playground at age seven. So, I got tossed from one bad foster home to the next. When I was sixteen, my foster mom's boyfriend gave me the choice of joining him in bed or meeting his fists. I chose the latter. After being hospitalized from that encounter, I was finally made an emancipated minor.

Now I'm nineteen and working at a slum diner, trying to scrape by to pay my bills while I attend college. Every single day I get sexually harassed by my creep boss and all the customers. I wish I lived in a time when men knew how to be gentlemen, a time when there was such a thing as true love.

My life is flipped upside down when a strange old woman comes into the diner claiming to be one of my relatives and offering to pay me $10,000 to help her with her memoirs. She promises to reveal family secrets that have been kept for generations. Secrets that will explain my mother's mental illness and her disappearance. Secrets that will help me learn where my place is, or when it is...

So, I cling to the hope for A Destiny to Love.