By Kathi Macias
Published by New
Hope Publishers
ISBN#978-1-59669-307-4
320 Pages
Book Blurb: In book two of the
“Freedom” series, readers find Mara fighting against her attraction to Bible
college student Jonathan Flannery even while wrestling with risking her own
precarious safety to become involved in the rescue of another girl who is
pregnant and desperately wants to escape her captors and save her own life, as
well as her child’s.
Halfway around the world in a brothel in Thailand, a young girl is rescued with the promise of being reunited with her younger sister who was adopted by an interracial couple in the States, friends of Jonathan’s family. Meanwhile, Jefe—Mara’s uncle, who held her as a sex slave in his brothel in San Diego for years—seeks revenge for Mara’s testimony that put him behind bars for life.
Will his underworld connections be successful in kidnapping and killing the girl who believes she has finally won her freedom?
Review: Special Delivery is the second book in the
Freedom series, where Kathi Macias does an amazing job of bringing awareness to
the sex trafficking business in America.
This author helps the reader feel for these young women who are often times
kidnapped and forced into a life of prostitution, with no hope of escape on
their own. I’m thankful for the review copy of a book that shows a light of
hope in the darkness of this tragic situation.
This author helps the reader recognize possible victims and how these
guys operate and manipulate young girls. By knowing their actions we can help
bring guys described in this book to justice for their horrific crimes.
The main character, Mara, has been rescued from the clutches
of evil, and the pit of hell! She thanks the Lord every day for her freedom.
She has a new life through the grace of God and people willing to risk so much
to bring her freedom..
When people found out about Mara’s past would they treat her
like the other girls her age? Could they put old things away and look at her
through news eyes? She’s a woman saved by grace and cleaned by the blood of the
lamb. She was still struggling to walk that out.
Kathi Macias shows the tentacles of evil go deep into
society. Evil has eyes and ears that connect to underground organizations. Even
if these girls get rescued from the horrible slave pit, evil is at work trying
to get them back so they could have their revenge and continue to make money
off their bodies. It’s about the money. It’s sick thing to think about but oh
so real.
Mara is a waitress and spies a young girl with an older man
at a table she’d soon be waiting on. Mara suspects something is amiss and
discerns this man is not her father. It gives her the creeps as she watches the
girls’ body language in reaction to the man next to her.
Mara prays as she goes to the table to take their order. As
she is taking their order Mara looks at the terrified look in the young girls’
eyes, it breaks her heart. She knows how it feels to be a sex slave, her mind
and heart start racing as she tries to get through their order. She knows this
guy is bad news. How can she help this girl? She hasn’t been free long herself.
It would be risky for her to get involved. The enemy might track her down and
force her into the life she just left. She stops a minute and reflects. Didn’t
people risk their lives for her sake? She had to do the same! She wanted to
give this young girl a chance at freedom. No one deserved to life as a sex
slave.
Kathi Macias pens a novel that pulls at your heart-strings
and brings awareness to the horrific slavery happening in America. Once
we become aware of what is going on we can find places to help. I pray society doesn’t
go back to sleep and pretend this doesn’t exist. This author describes how hard
it is to set these girls free and prosecute the evil doers. This is big
business. It’s hard to find the camps and shut them down but it can be done. All
things are possible through Christ that strengthens us.
Kathi Macias has a heart for the hurting. I’m thankful she
is passionate about writing books that bring awareness to issues I should know
about. She also helps me know about organizations I can get involved with to
help whatever cause she is writing about at the time. I highly recommend this
series on sex trafficking, you’ll never be the same after reading it.
Nora St.Laurent
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