Charlie's Girl

This is a compelling story of love, luxury, abuse, abandonment, betrayal, murder, and survival, where victims become heroes by breaking the cycle to help other victims. The characters intertwine between the settings of an overwrought family in England and the frivolous, sensuous world of yachting in South Florida, USA. Claudia Jacobson-Hume is a stunning nineteen-year-old at the end of her final year of school, having achieved all the goals she set for herself.  She is thrilled through her success to be able to pay back something to her adoptive parents, and today is a new day in her life, a new beginning, with her past years of abuse behind her.  But her sense of pride is shattered when her parents do not arrive for the presentations on the last day. Later, distraction arrives in the handsome form of Charlie, an American who had come to England in search of his birth mother.  He is immediately attracted to Claudia, not just for her green eyes and Titian hair, but also for a familiar, recognizable sadness.  Taken by her strength and independence, he is determined to help her overcome her and accept who she is. A page-turning, fascinating rollercoaster; a truly special story worth reading once more.