This Is Now

A Gritty, Urban New Adult Cinderella Story Where The Princess Can Do Her Own Rescuing – She Just Needs Someone To Believe In Her. Sister To Car Thieves, Ex–girlfriend To A Drug Dealer, High School Dropout, No–hoper And Loser – Jess Is On The Sidelines, Watching Her Life Become One Epic Fail. Her Dreams Of University Are Fading Fast, As The People In Her Life Fight To Confine Her To Their Own Expectations. Then She Meets Sebastien, A Gifted Cellist From A Very Different Walk Of Life. Sebastien Is Clean And Strong And Talented. He Likes And Respects Her, But He Too Has Expectations. Sebastien Seems To Think She Can Do Anything, And Jess, Despite Her Fears And The Secrets She Hides, Is Starting To Believe Him. But Just As Jess Dares To Hope, The Secrets In Her Past And The Lies In Her Present Catch Up With Her. All Seems Lost And She Has To Make A Choice. Between Past And Future. Between Home And Hope. Between Now And Never. And This Is Now.