Empowerment is just a word...until you live it. Lisel Martinez is not a rough-&-tumble girl, so what is someone more interested in poetry and plants than a hot social life doing on the night streets of San Francisco? And is there anything a 16-year-old who no longer has a home can do to keep herself safe in a world that seems anything but...? From the author of the award-winning 'Gathering The Dreamcatchers' novels including Living In Secret ("courageous, thought-provoking," Publishers Weekly), Esoterica, Paradise Found, and Living In Light comes a contemporary quest of one modern-day pueblo teen traveling from the sunlit mesas of New Mexico to the darkness of life on the streets in California as she searches for a life different than the one that seems destined to be her fate.