Chosen: Childhood of Trust

Book One, Chosen: Childhood of Trust:  Sherry Lynn grows up in Arizona in a world of farms, family businesses, gas stations, open roads and the music that would become the soundtrack of her memories.

Adopted as a baby, Sherry grows up knowing one thing for certain:

She was chosen.

It becomes part of the way she understands herself—something special, something reassuring, something she carries with her long before she is old enough to understand how deeply that word will shape the choices she makes.

From the outside, hers looks like an ordinary childhood.

It isn't.

There are complicated family relationships, a fiercely controlling mother, friendships that become lifelines, devastating losses and lessons about trust that Sherry doesn't yet realize she is learning.

There is also plenty of laughter.

Neighborhood adventures. Family stories. First crushes. Older boys. Cars. Loud music. And the wonderfully questionable judgment that comes with being young enough to believe nothing truly terrible can happen to you.

Then comes Kevin.

First love changes everything.

What begins with stolen moments and teenage excitement becomes something deeper—something Sherry believes might give her that same powerful feeling she has known since childhood.

The feeling of being chosen.

But growing up comes quickly.

Sherry drops out of high school after her freshman year.

At fifteen, she marries for the first time.
That marriage ends.
At sixteen, she marries again.

Before most girls her age have even graduated, Sherry has already begun living an adult life she is nowhere near prepared for.

Nostalgic, funny, painful and unapologetically honest, Chosen: Childhood of Trust is the beginning of Sherry Lynn's true story—a story about adoption, family, friendship, loss, first love and trust, and about a girl slowly discovering that being chosen by someone and being loved by someone are two very different things.

And this is only the beginning.