Rainey Paxton was born addicted to heroin. In the fragile first hours of Rainey’s life, hospital doctors and nurses fight to keep her alive. Several months later she is released into her parents’ custody, where the baby is forced to live on neglect and tainted breast milk. Constrained in her home, infested with drug addicts and drifters, Rainey’s drug-addicted parents leave little hope for her protection. While Rainey is still an infant, her aunt Sophie visits her and finds the baby dirty and hungry. A bond forms between the two until tragedy strikes. Rainey is alone again until her sister, Ivy, is born and the child breathes new life into Rainey’s small, isolated world. But her parents have another plan, and with no one there to intervene on Rainey’s behalf she must make sacrifices to feed her parents’ cravings and to keep her sister safe. Follow Rainey’s journey from a house crawling with junkies to the violent confines of a juvenile detention center where she finds friendship, and learns fearlessness from the most unexpected people. **WARNING** 18+ Readers Only. Graphic content and subject matter. A Little Pinprick eBook categories: Horror Novels - Psychological Thriller - Psychological Horror - Suspenseful Novels - Realistic Fiction - Thriller - Dark - Disturbing - Crime Fiction - Murder - Family Drama Novels - Vigilante Justice - Suspense Horror - Scary - Drug Addiction Praise For A Little Pinprick "A masterpiece. A story of family, drugs, abuse and gangs. A sad tale of the reality we live in today." - Cbitz The Bookworm "Bringing issues from the dark to the light. Giving those who can't speak a voice!!!" - Michelle Knight "Gives me an insider's perspective. I could never truly empathize with what family members went through before reading this book." - Catherine Blair "She writes from the heart; the stories are raw yet beautiful." - Carol NetGalley Reviewer "Jaw dropping. Couldn't stop reading it . . . Like an accident on the road you just slow down and stare . . . hoping that no one was killed." - Theresa Pettet Paige Dearth, a survivor of childhood abuse, was raised outside of Philadelphia. By her early twenties, she was a new mother with a heroin-addicted husband. Never a good student in high school, Dearth would later earn a master's degree while balancing a full-time job and parenting alone. She remarried and spent more than two decades working in corporate America.   In 2011, she achieved her dream of becoming a writer by releasing her debut novel,  Believe Like A Child. The beginning of Believe Like A Child is based on real events from Paige's childhood. Paige's novels present a fine balance between what lives on in her imagination and the evil that lurks in the real world.   Paige writes real-life horror and refers to her work as: Fiction with Meaning. She hopes that awareness through fiction creates prevention.   Paige lives in the suburbs of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with her husband Mike, and dog, Benny.