When her cruel, abusive mother throws her out, fourteen year old Orpha must make her own way in the world. Though at first she is met with the harshness of the world, she encounters friendly people who take her in. Will she ever be reunited with her family? 
 I'm going to be honest, this book was impossible to take seriously. From the start, this fourteen year old girl has non-stop luck. A kindly young man and his mother take her in, another family allows her to stay with them and teach her a trade, which she then uses to build her own business. Nothing she does ever fails, and thus I could not relate with her. 
 The motivation behind her mother's actions was equally difficult to comprehend. In the beginning there is a single paragraph that says her own mother abused her and that she was glad to be in that position. But it's not mentioned again. How did she get away with everything she did? 
 The book also moves at a very fast pace, presumably to cover every point the author thought necessary for the plot. We also jump around from person to person: Orpha, her father, her mother, the servants, random people she meets. It makes it difficult to read and the progression of time is impossible to follow. We are told many things but not allowed to experience it at all. 
 Overall, I was not impressed by the style of this book. Perhaps there are readers who do enjoy this author's works, but I'm afraid I am not one of them. 
 I received a copy through NetGalley for reviewing purposes.