She lives with her five siblings, grandmother, and her mother Iris. Ginger is a 16 year old girl who dealt with rape from an early age thanks to her mother's boyfriend. At the end of the book Cody's mom comes to the hospital and comforts her son who is still in a coma from Cody. In desperate need of money Cody starts prostituting himself and when Misty a fellow prostitute's boyfriend Chris catches the two of them with a client he gets furious and almost kills Cody. He also is dating Ronnie a girl he believes he loves. Jack dies from cancer and Cody has to pay the bills so he turns to online gambling. At the end of the book Whitney is in the hospital and Kyra is mad that she is stealing all of the attention.Ĭody is the main protagonist and he lives with his mother, brother, and step father Jack in Vegas. He also makes her prostitute herself and cheats regularly. Later Whitney runs away with Bryn to Vegas where he gets her addicted to drugs. After losing her virginity to Lucas and him breaking up with her at a party she meets Bryn at the mall who keeps his eyes on her. Whitney is a 15 year old girl who lives in her sister Kyra's shadow. In the end Seth moves in with David a guy he met on a website still staying in Vegas. He ends up having sex with Jarrod and it turns out that Carl used him as bait and Carl kicks Seth out. Once there Seth is very lonely and one day while working out he meets Jarrod. Later Seth's dad kicks him out of his house and Seth moves with Carl to Vegas. When Loren moves Seth is heartbroken and goes off to a gay bar and meets Carl. Seth is a 17 year old boy who is a homosexual dating a man named Loren. At the end of the book Eden starts living in a group home and things start looking up for her.

Once in Vegas Eden becomes a prostitute living on the street. Once there another trucker drives her to Vegas in exchange for oral sex. She hides in a truck and a trucker finds her and drives her to Ely. Together Eden and Jerome escape Tears of Zion and Eden dumps Jerome off at a gas station. Once there Eden trades sex with a worker named Jerome for good food, shampoo, and more little luxories. Her parents find out that she has been seeing a boy behind her parents' backs and they send her to Tears of Zion. Traffick is the second book of Tricks (book)Įden is a 16 year old girl who grows up in a religious household.

The novel follows their journey from their beginnings in the City of Sin, to their eventual departure and hope for a better life. Although each of their stories is unique, they all are forced to undergo the harsh life of an underaged prostitution. Tricks follows the lives of five different teenagers with one thing in common, Las Vegas.

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