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Sharon Marshall had secrets. Deep, disturbing secrets so shocking and complex, and so unique, they took more than a decade to unravel.
A Beautiful Child explores one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American law enforcement. A brilliant high school student in Forest Park, Georgia who lived alone with her father. Only no one knew the horrible truth.
An international bestseller, readers around the globe have tried to solve the mystery: Who was Sharon Marshall?

Franklin Delano Floyd was raised in an orphanage and served time for raping a child and bank robbery when he disappeared after assualting a woman in 1973. He surfaced as Trenton Davis in Oklahoma City in 1975 with a daughter, a toddler he named Suzanne. By 1984, his name was Warren Marshall and her name was Sharon.

After moving to Tampa, "Warren" forced Sharon to work in a strip club and work as a prostitute. They fled after Sharon's friend, Cheryl Comesso, disappeared in 1989.

Sharon Marshall's story has captured international attention (including a cover story in U.K.'s True Detective magazine). Readers of A Beautiful Child around the globe are trying to help solve the mystery of her true identity.

Three years after fleeing Georgia, "Trenton Davis" was in Oklahoma City with his "daughter" Suzanne. They would move to several other locales before settling near Atlanta, Georgia in the 1980s.

An honors student, Sharon was a Who's Who Among High School Students in America and earned a full scholarship to study aerospace engineering at Georgia Tech University.

Sharon's son Michael was transformed from a troubled boy to a bubbly first grader. But "Warren," now known as "Clarence," couldnt' stay away and kidnapped Michael from his first grade classroom.