Thrown into a world where her wits must be sharp if she is to survive, fourteen-year-old Emma Snow has left everything familiar behind. Eight months earlier, she had lived in a lazy small Midwestern town, where summer days consisted of chasing butterflies and watching oak leaves lift in the breeze. Her world changed after the dark family secret was exposed. Emma, relatively new to the life of a foster kid, is broken in by her new foster brother and her foster mother's boyfriend. She cannot escape her nightmares when asleep, and wakes in the middle of the night to find her nightmare has become a reality once again. Shattered, she finds her dream of belonging, of being like other girls just that, a dream. She begins to wonder if pain at the hands of boys and men will ever end. Will she ever be safe? Will she ever be wanted-loved? The Garbage Bag Girl is a story of hope, endurance, and strength, of finding ones place in the world. It is about the resiliency of the human spirit that carries us through-taking over when we would give up. It is a story of love lost, and of love that finds us when most needed-arriving in the most unexpected places and forms.