title: Riches To Rags: Book 1 of Treasures in India
author:  Elizabeth Jones 
description: Elizabeth Jones lives in the central valley of California with her husband Dennis and cat Lilybits. She is mother of two, and blessed grandmother of ten. For over twenty years, she wrote short stories for the teaching time at her local Awana Clubs International. The seeds of Riches to Rags began there. The best place to find Elizabeth is in her backyard reading, writing, gardening, and bird watching with Lilybits by her side or stalking the birds.
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  Many of my books are about special friendships.
  
  Treasure and India, the two girls in  Secrets,  have one of the closest of
  these friendships, but on the face of it they are an unlikely pair. They're
  the same age, they're both bright, bookish girls, they both like drawing and
  colouring and inventing – but they are worlds apart when it comes to
  background.
  
  Treasure's had a really scary life. Her mum has a boyfriend who hates
  Treasure, and vents his temper on her. He might be a good father to his own
  children, Bethany and Kyle and little Gary, but he threatens poor Treasure,
  making her life a misery. He goes too far and hits her with his heavy belt,
  cutting her forehead. Treasure's magnificent, feisty grandma sees this, and
  sweeps her off to live in her crowded council flat with her own extended
  family.
  
  India lives nearby, but in a 