Saving Jamie

My friend wrote a book called, Saving Jamie and it is amazing!! (but not published)

Its a romantic, heart breaking, and touching story about a girl, Jamie, who's mother has died and her dad sent her to an orphanage when she was little. Now she is 17 yrs. old and off to her 5th foster home in her 6 yrs. at the orphanage but she doesn't know that she will gain more than a foster mom and dad. She is a very troubled girl with a rough past so she is quiet and keeps to herself. She has one friend, from the orphanage, Preston he is 17 almost 18. At the park Jamie sees this guy she thinks is really hot and he winds up being her next door neighbor, Luke, he is a very popular boy and Jamie doesn't think he will want to hang around her. But she is dead wrong, they wind up being really good friends and eventually start dating later on. But most importantly Luke leads her to a new best friend, Jesus. They go to the park every day to read out of Luke's Bible and they grow closer and closer. Well her life seems to be going alright except for the fact that every time she leaves the house (which is very often) she neglects to tell her foster parents where she is going and that gets Peter her foster dad very upset. Every time she comes home he asks her where she has been and when Jamie doesn't answer he smacks her. So she thinks to herself its not that bad one smack a day is okay. Well one day she and Luke decided they would try to find Jamies birth dad. A couple weeks later Luke finds out he died in a shooting. Jamie is devastated so devastated she leaves her foster home to go back to the orphanage to spend the night there. Well once again she didn't tell her foster parents. Peter was furious when she got home so he smacked her harder this time and grounded her to the house and threatened her that if she ever set foot out of this house again she would go back to the orphanage. So Luke decides to come over to her house every day to read with her even though she cant go outside. After a couple days of that she asked Jesus into her heart, the next day she decided to go find Preston and tell him the good news of her becoming a christian. She finally finds where he lives now (he had turned 18 and once you turn 18 they "kick" you out of the orphanage) but he has changed and she doesn't like it he isn't happy for her decision like he usually is when she chooses the right stuff. So she goes home and as she sneaks back into her room she runs into Peter who is furious once again. But this time he does more than smacking her, he kicks her, punches her, throws her, pushes her, and more. She is laying on the ground bleeding when they hear a knock at the door, Peter rushes away from the door right as it creeks open. Its Luke! He calls out to Peter so that he knows Luke is there when he finds Jamie on the floor hurt. He rushes over to her and by then Jamie is going unconscious from hitting her head on the door handle, the next thing she knows she is in the hospital all bandaged up with Luke by her side. Fey (her quiet foster mom) tells Jamie that Peter has been arrested. In the end Fey adopts Jamie and Jamie gets baptized and they all live happily ever after. Jamie was saved by Gods grace.

I didn't mean to go this long but it is an amazing book! I am still trying to convince my friend to publish it even though she doesn't like the book. I will keep working on it let me know if you are interested in reading it if more people are interested she might give in and publish it.

~Saved by grace