𝑱𝑨𝑺𝑶𝑵: Book One of the Lost Kid Series

Fifteen-year-old Jason Mann has already survived more than most do in a lifetime: years of bruises, broken promises, and the kind of silence that echoes louder than screams. His father—a volatile drunk with a violent streak—has ruled Jason’s world with fists and fear, until one final outburst changes everything. When federal agents burst through the door, Jason thinks salvation has finally arrived. But freedom doesn’t feel like freedom when it means being thrust into a broken foster system, surrounded by strangers and expectations he doesn’t understand.

Jason doesn’t want help. He wants out.

Yet, as he navigates the chaos of emergency placements, overworked social workers, and homes that either pretend or disappoint, he begins to forge bonds he never expected—with a resilient social worker haunted by his own past, a foster sister who sees more than she says, and a family who might just be crazy enough to love him exactly as he is. But healing doesn’t come easy, and neither does truth—especially when the truth about Jason’s mother, long presumed to have abandoned him, threatens to unravel everything.

Told with aching honesty, biting wit, and a raw emotional intensity that grips the throat, JASON is a powerful coming-of-age story about surviving abuse, searching for identity, and daring to believe in the possibility of family. This novel peels back the curtain on the lives of lost kids—those discarded, displaced, and dismissed—and asks the impossible question:

What if love is out there… and we’re brave enough to accept it?

Alexis