Goodreads asked Jacquelyn Sill:

Where did you get the idea for your most recent book?

Jacquelyn Sill In October 2011 I traveled throughout Thailand and across the Burmese border. I was there for 14 days, and the entire time I was intrigued by the level of poverty nestled next to wealth. I was overcome by the joy in the faces of children in the orphanages and the sorrow on the faces of those living on the streets. The man who was our guide told us repeatedly that human trafficking was not an issue in Chiang Mai and Mai Sai, the two cities where we spent the most time. He said that those cities were filled with families.
When I returned home, I began to do my own research and I was shocked to see that the very streets we had walked had a reputation for sex trafficking and slave trading. The more I researched, the more convinced I was that there was a story to tell.

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