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Author and entrepreneur, Stacy A. Padula from Plymouth, Massachusetts has accrued years of experience working with adolescents as a college counselor, mentor, life coach, and youth group leader. In 2019 and 2020 respectively, the International Association of Top Professionals (New York, NY) named her ""Top Educational Consultant of the Year"" and ""Empowered Woman of the Year."" She is the CEO and founder of both South Shore College Consulting & Tutoring and Briley & Baxter Publications-a publishing company that donates a portion of its proceeds to animal rescues each month. She is the author of the Gripped and the Montgomery Lake High young-adult book series. Her first novel, The Right Person, was published in 2010, followed by When Darkness Tries to Hide, The Aftermath, The Battle for Innocence, and The Forces Within. Throughout 2019 and 2020, she released a new series titled Gripped, which takes place in the same world as Montgomery Lake High but focuses on different main characters. Multiple Gripped books became #1 New Releases in their genre on Amazon. In 2019, she also wrote her first screenplay, an adaptation of her novel The Aftermath and worked on a pilot script for Gripped. Her Gripped book series is now being adapted for TV by Emmy-winning producer Mark Blutman. Learn more at www.stacyapadula.com.
The Battle for Innocence offers incredible insight and even more character development than the previous books within the MLH series. The flashbacks to the characters in middle school give detailed explanations as to why and how the many characters are the way they are in the present day; something that I have seen very few book series do. I found it very captivating to see multi-dimensional characters and related to them in a whole new way. - Elizabeth Harvey, Emerson College The Battle for Innocence is an extremely impactful book and an important read for teens today. It is an unfortunate truth that teenagers are confronted with so much darkness and danger in social situations on a regular basis. Stacy Padula's writing brings dark situations to light and airs out dramatic grievances from characters' pasts. - Mackenzie Wells, University of Georgia
