Aria Gleason battles the unexpected and endures untold physical pain and mental torture in her search for her bayou-born child. She learns no motherless child flourishes and no mother's journey embraces sanity until she breaks the chains of false imprisonment and hugs a beating heart to her breast. After she's paroled, Aria's life becomes an obsession to find her stolen child. Action-packed and suspenseful, readers will keep turning pages. A prison guard who knows the disturbing truth strives to persuade, and then threaten, Aria to abandon her child. Driven to succeed, Aria has only her resolve to go with the GED certificate she earned in prison. Aria's Bayou Child explores themes of maternal love, friendship and family tied together with gripping suspense in true thriller fashion. Live the terror no mother should bear. Inspired by true events. Aria is a young mother whose travails and triumph is richly drawn in a world of derring-do unfolding a dastardly scheme. Her every belief will be challenged and shaken. Be mesmerized by this First Place Gold Award author.