Book 1 -teen edition- "RATCHET" is the story of Miss Rayqelle Davis; the stepdaughter of a Chicago police officer who grows up in a seriously dysfunctional home and turns to the streets as a means of escape. Broken and torn apart by physical and psychological abuse at the hands of her alcoholic mother, Rayqelle leaves the safety of the suburbs to live with her grandmother on Chicago's southside. There she quickly develops an insatiable fascination for the dangerous side of hood life. That's when she meets Chance, an extremely handsome, very intelligent, hugely talented artist from a wealthy family who turns her world upside down. PG17