I'll go ahead and give you the basics of it, just to get another writer's input on whether or not it's a good plot.
So, all his life, my College Algebra teacher's dad thought that the reason his lived with his dad was that soon after he was born, his mother had run away with another man and tried to kidnap them. NOT SO. It was basically the other way around. It wasn't until he was a fully grown adult and his father had passed away that he learned that after he was born, his father had run away with another woman. They "converted" and decided his kids needed to grow up as "christians" so they kidnapped him and his sister. His real mother was devestated and tried as hard as she could to find them. His sister was old enough that wherever they went, she would tell people what happened. So their "parents" tried to kill her. Twice. I think both times it was by trying to get the garage door to close on her. Finally she somehow managed to get back to her real mother.
He doesn't find out about any of this until his father died and he tries to find out who his real mother is so he can contact her and let her know her ex-husband is dead. Through this, he also got reunited with his sister who told him the whole thing.
I've sketched out a few scenes. I want to write it like the dad and step-mother are the here and now, and the finding his mother, his sister trying to tell people the truth, and his dad trying to kill his sister are flashbacks, and the reader won't know how they all tie into each other until the end. I'd just use the basic plot, none of the personal details, and expand on it, but I still want to make sure it's okay with Ms. Riley.
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So, all his life, my College Algebra teacher's dad thought that the reason his lived with his dad was that soon after he was born, his mother had run away with another man and tried to kidnap them. NOT SO. It was basically the other way around. It wasn't until he was a fully grown adult and his father had passed away that he learned that after he was born, his father had run away with another woman. They "converted" and decided his kids needed to grow up as "christians" so they kidnapped him and his sister. His real mother was devestated and tried as hard as she could to find them. His sister was old enough that wherever they went, she would tell people what happened. So their "parents" tried to kill her. Twice. I think both times it was by trying to get the garage door to close on her. Finally she somehow managed to get back to her real mother.
He doesn't find out about any of this until his father died and he tries to find out who his real mother is so he can contact her and let her know her ex-husband is dead. Through this, he also got reunited with his sister who told him the whole thing.
I've sketched out a few scenes. I want to write it like the dad and step-mother are the here and now, and the finding his mother, his sister trying to tell people the truth, and his dad trying to kill his sister are flashbacks, and the reader won't know how they all tie into each other until the end. I'd just use the basic plot, none of the personal details, and expand on it, but I still want to make sure it's okay with Ms. Riley.