<p>Alicia is a South American child with an innate instinct for survival and a keen intelligence that could go toe to toe with any Fortune 500 CEO. Alone and on her own since age four, she has gone from feral child of the gutter living between dump and dumpster to a prostitute in the city’s seedy red light district. However, Alicia has a plan that could ultimately bring down the foul industry that destroys the lives of millions of girls each year. In JR Ingrisano’s must-read story -- a gritty, contemporary novel of hope and justice -- about how one girl with an indomitable spirit survives the horrors of modern-day sex slave trafficking, readers will get an intimate glimpse inside the depraved, amoral life created by the men and women who fuel and feed off the broken remains of a valueless civilization that sees young girls and women as nothing more than products to sell, use up, and discard. “This is a topic that needs to be discussed, and a story that needs to be told. My prayer is that people will read this book (which brought tears to my eyes at the end), and decide to do something about this issue.” – Rev. Dt. Charles W. Green, Executive Pastor at The Highlands UMC.</p>

Alicia in the Ruins: A Story of Survival

Literature & Fiction

Ingrisano, JR

Literary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

To escape the failure of a marriage his wife no longer wants and a business that no longer stirs his soul, Jamie Richards runs away to a Caribbean island, where he becomes the salt-crusted, barefoot skipper of the excursion catamaran The Do Over. Along the way, he candidly questions many of the cultural and sexual truisms of his past life, finding that many are no more than myths. JR Ingrisano’s Captain Jolly’s Do Over is a character-driven novel of redemption and relationships, with echoes of Hunter S. Thompson’s The Rum Diary and the stories of William Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. It is the ultimate escape fantasy, a novel of myths wrapped in hard-core truths about modern relationships. Long after you are done, the characters will stay with you, and you’ll find yourself missing them. I especially liked, in an odd way, Patti the Beast. – Jo Roderick, author of The Aeonosphere. Congratulations on an artistic success that deserves to be followed by the commercial kind. --Eric Anderson

Captain Jolly's Do Over

Crimson Cloak Publishing

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Alicia in the Ruins: A Story of Survival

Captain Jolly's Do Over