FOR THE TAKING

By: Silver Cartwright

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

FOR THE TAKING follows Don Vodka’s brave journey from a cruel childhood to a life of adventure and self-discovery, blending raw struggle with the triumphs that shaped her into what she is today.

It is the haunting story of a girl forced to grow up too soon in a world that never protected her. After her mother’s death when she was seven, Donnalee’s father turned cruel and violent — until his disappearance left her in the hands of “Uncle Digger,” a man whose fists were only the beginning of what she feared. Nearing her twelfth birthday, she began to sense the danger shifting into something far darker, and ran away before her worst nightmare could become reality.

Her escape launches her on a cross-country odyssey — from the Nevada desert to Beverly Hills, from storm drains beneath Las Vegas to the guarded fences of Area 51. Along the way, she finds both peril and kindness: circus performers who welcome her as family, a ranch where she races a horse to victory, a cruise ship that scoops her from the sea and takes her to Hawaii. All fleeting glimpses of the love and belonging she has always been denied. She records it all in her journal — every triumph, every heartbreak, every secret hope.

But as her journey unfolds, one question follows Donnalee everywhere: can she ever claim the love she’s searching for, or is it something the world has already stolen from her?

FOR THE TAKING is the extraordinary story of Donnalee Vodka (Don Vodka), a runaway who defied the odds, survived the pain, and turned it all into triumph—emerging as a best-selling author of more than twenty novels.

How one little girl made it when most kids wouldn’t be able to most of all how she thought of others and helped them.

I like the end when she found her grandpa and had some one to love her. Great book.