Excerpt: The Whistleblower

This section didn't make the final cut of the book, so I'm sharing it here.

Introduction

A strange little girl. A strange little girl with blonde, cork-screw curls and sky-blue eyes. A strange little girl with skinned knees and fresh bruises on her legs. In the record-hot summer before fourth grade, the strange little girl spent her days alone, walking barefoot down the train tracks near her house in rural, south Mississippi - a…