A Different Escape

One stifling town

One volatile mother

One chance to escape it all

Trapped in a lackluster town with her verbally abusive mother, seventeen-year-old Lacey Robinson knows one thing for certain: The only antidote to all the problems she and her brother face is getting as far away as possible from their inept home life. When an admissions project from Lacey's out-of-state dream college comes along, she knows it's the ticket out she's been hungering after. After all, Lacey knows there's nothing that can't be solved by putting miles between her and her problems.

All that's left to do now is create a masterpiece, get accepted, and voila!--a new life awaits.

But as life at home grows increasingly difficult, Lacey's way out doesn't seem quite so easy anymore. When she finds a confidant in co-worker Noah Kennedy--who's struggling in the wake of his father's recent suicide--she begins to second-guess if she can truly outrun her scars. As her plan begins to splinter, Lacey is faced with a life-altering ultimatum: keep failing to outrun her scars and end up just like her mother, or finally deal with the trauma she's ignored her whole life.

Can Lacey confront and overcome her past, or will it become her?

Raw, gritty, and achingly real, A Different Escape tells the story of a teen's struggle to embrace life's biggest hurdles.

Author: Danielle Roberts
Publisher: Bookbaby
Published: 07/19/2021
Pages: 326
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.04h x 6.07w x 0.82d
ISBN13: 9781098377335
ISBN10: 1098377338
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Family Life | General

About the Author
Danielle Roberts is a YA writer and author of the self-published novel, Awoken. Her poems have appeared in the Acclaimed 2011 Poetry Collection, and she has always been intrigued (maybe even a little obsessed) with words.

Danielle has spent years reading, crafting stories, and transferring her imagination onto pages. When she is not reading or typing away, she is a typical city-dweller--snapping photos of skyscrapers and neon lights or eating too much sushi.