Foreword
There's a reason why every girl runs away from home. A drunken mother, divorced parents, lack of love, the all-American hang-up -- unwed, unwanted, and pregnant. Hundreds of runaway girls are never missed by parents, by family, by teachers, by society. They're outcasts, broken-hearted girls bred in broken homes, with nothing better to look forward to than some evil more tolerable than the one they left behind.
For the girl in this story, Karen, drunken parents and a father who sexually abused her were reasons enough to leave home. And though the reason is good, will it justify the end? What destiny lies in store for the runaway girl? Karen finds a home with a motorcycle gang, but the price she must pay is humiliation and degradation.
For the Karens in America, there's no rest from their misery, no pleasure in their exile, no cure for the blight caused by a society that shuns the lonely, the despairing, the love lost. A story of a girl running from her love-impoverished past to seek a better future anywhere but home. A lesson for a society that seeks a better future.
The Publisher