title: Their Only Hope
author: Arrigotti, Betty
description: Virginia Shea, a sweet girl with an open heart, was forced into prostitution two years ago, at only 16. Raised a Christian by her grandmother, she has lost hope for her own rescue, but now she suspects she is pregnant. Maybe God will intervene for her baby’s sake, though he doesn’t seem to have heard her prayers up to now. Joseph O’Keefe, an introverted germaphobe, will soon graduate and be ordained a deacon. He’s all about chastity and prayer and can’t believe God is telling him to go to a woman of the street who is crying nearby. And then there’s Ryan, a nine-year-old who has just been coaxed into the car of a stranger…