You don’t expect to like Jody as she is not likeable in the beginning, but as Jody changes, we grow to like her and begin to root for her. Sherry Mayes does an incredible job of putting us in Jody’s head. Can she come to terms with everything that has happened to her and what her life could become with being paralyzed? She begins to feel better about herself, but her journey is far from over. She tailspins into a depression and becomes a recluse of sorts and then she meets someone online. Besides losing her freedom as she can’t walk anymore, Jody begins to lose everything else in her life in various ways: her best friend, her fiance, and her father. She has a devastating interview, then people begin to blame her for the accident. She feels her life is over since she is now paralyzed from the waist down. Then one night she is involved in a serious car accident and her life changes forever. She is also vain, shallow, and the typical self absorbed teenager. Jody Angel Taylor has it all: She is a beauty queen, popular, has a new car, and just got engaged. Can she find the courage to take it? Determined to love again and clear her name, she embarks on a new adventure that will transform her life beyond all expectations. What she doesn’t know is that someone across the globe is about to throw her a lifeline. She becomes a lonely recluse, feeling she’s lost everything including her legs - her boyfriend to her best friend, her father to an affair, her mother to depression - but above all she fears losing her mind. Until one night she has a devastating car crash, ending up paralyzed - and her perfect world collapses.Ĭommitting media suicide and publicly blamed for her own accident, everything around her falls apart.

Jody Angel Taylor believes her life is all mapped out: Glamorous, clever and popular, and due to marry her handsome boyfriend, she has it all. SHE THOUGHT HER LIFE WAS OVER … BUT IT WAS JUST BEGINNING

Stop The World by Sherry Mayes