Between the Cracks

Destiny Harris is eighteen years old, a senior at King High School on Chicago's South Side, and already raising a three year old son. Between caring for Amir, working part-time at Dollar Tree, and surviving her mother's constant threats to kick her out, Destiny is barely holding on. But she's determined to graduate to prove that she's more than the mistakes everyone thinks define her.

Then Amir breaks his arm under mysterious circumstances, and a CPS investigation threatens to expose the secret Destiny has been guarding for four years: her son's father isn't the boy from her neighborhood everyone believes. It's Marcus Carson her former student teacher, now her English teacher, the man who groomed her when she was just fourteen years old.

As the walls close in and Destiny discovers she's pregnant again, she faces an impossible choice: continue protecting the man who stole her childhood, or finally tell a truth that could destroy everything she has left.

Raw, unflinching, and ultimately redemptive, Between the Cracks is a powerful story about survival, secrets, and the strength it takes to reclaim your voice when the world has tried to silence you. This is a story about the girls who fall through society's cracks and the courage it takes to climb back out.