{"id":2568,"date":"2026-05-19T01:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T01:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patricialake.com\/?page_id=2568"},"modified":"2026-05-20T10:44:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T10:44:51","slug":"billows-creek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patricialake.com\/?page_id=2568","title":{"rendered":"BILLOWS CREEK"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Rayna returned to Billows Creek to interview Lillian, a woman born more than seventy years earlier in the basement of a brothel in Chinatown, taught to survive before she could speak and exploited before she could understand that what was being taken from her was wrong. Lillian explained how she had ended up in a forlorn, forgotten New England village, weathered by its own storms\u2014a place that welcomed strays while quietly burying the secrets of those who lived there.<\/p>

Lillian\u2019s memories unfolded in fragments, each story slipping into the next, carrying pieces of a truth too painful to speak aloud yet desperate to be exposed\u2014the disappearance of children, the weight of debts never forgiven, and a system designed to keep them unseen. Somewhere within it all lingered Jackson, Rayna\u2019s brother-in-law, whose unexpected connection to Lillian would come to surprise them both.<\/p>

Unflinching and deeply human,\u00a0Billows Creek<\/em>\u00a0shines a light on the hidden lives of the exploited\u2014on human trafficking, on realities too brutal to ignore\u2014and on the fierce will of those who refuse to disappear.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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A portion of the proceeds from this book will be donated to organizations working to prevent exploitation and to support survivors.\u200b<\/strong><\/span><\/p>

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