James Paddock

Lost & Forgotten James Paddock

They were identical twins until they were Lost & Forgotten May 1981 Melissa and Marissa are only ten-years-old and only their mother can tell them apart, these two unfortunate girls, born with faces only a mother could love. Then their mother dies and they are shoved into the state adoption system whereupon they are separated by the breadth of the country and then lost. August 2004 Marissa - In the back of a van on a wet and twisting highway she fights with her abductors, causing a deadly accident from which she is later extracted. After lying in a coma for four months she awakens with a new face and no memory, an opportunity to pick a new name and start a new life; a clean slate. Marissa becomes Mariah and she is beautiful. Separated for 23 years, Melissa, now living in Denver, has the financial means to attempt a search for her identical twin. Her search brings her to Los Angeles, crossing paths with Tyron, the only person aware of the truth of Marissa's new name, new look, a person with immoral intent. As Melissa searches for her twin and Mariah searches for who she was, they are both faced with first time romances. Their brief crossing of paths and wisps of twin psychic connections provides one hope, and the other confusion. Tyron hatches a plan to bring them together, for a price that includes more than just Melissa's money. Lost & Forgotten is story of wealth and poverty for far from pretty identical twin sisters as one meets evil in her search for her other, and the other struggles to start a new life and find out who she was.