Beginning Prologue an Ugly Truth

This is a fiction based on facts and premises that exist in our modern world. To alert and inform the public at large that there are an estimated 1 million individuals a year, 70% of those are women and preteen children, the majority abducted and sold for as little as 900 US dollars. Becoming items of merchandise in the modern Global Trafficking of Human Slaves that today earns a net profit in the hundreds of billions, to those who enslave for profit. Told from the viewpoint of a young girl so entangled in this ugly enterprise, now finds herself transformed into a rare item of merchandise for sale. The viewpoint of her close friend who is also targeted for the same fate. Last the lonely man who via revelation realizes his collective responsibility for the continued existence of this the most ugly and evil human enterprises, and the penance he will undertake for the salvation of them all.