Shannon

The Incredible True Story of One Girl's Journey from Darkness to Light.

An astonishing true story: before she reached her teens, Shannon's search for love had thrown her into a world darker and more terrifying than most of us will experience in a lifetime. At the age of just nine, Shannon was desperate to know the father she had been separated from for so many years. Her journey took her from Brazil to Cleveland, Ohio, one of the toughest cities in the United States.

Disillusioned and lonely, Shannon became friends with Paul, a boy who seemed to understand exactly how she felt. She was intrigued to discover that he was a member of one of the city's most notorious gangs. Attracted to the glamour of the life he described, she ran away from her abusive father and into the embrace of The Jaguars.

She became hopelessly drawn into a life of drugs, murder, crime and witchcraft, constantly on the run from the police and able to trust no one. As her life spiralled further into violence Shannon felt she was beyond hope, and that her heart had turned to stone.

Yet a voice from the past continued to haunt her and one day it was to be the cause of an incredible turnaround, leading her to find love where she least expected it.