Fifty Cents to Find My Billionaire Dad

Gemma Hope Whitmore was illegally bought by the Carter family and abused for seven years. One snowy night, after she reaches for a spare rib, Brenda and Ray Carter send her to stand by the back door. She counts to a hundred to ignore the cold, waiting to see if Brenda's mood will let her back in.

By a dumpster, she finds a missing-child poster with her own face on it. The poster lists a maple leaf birthmark on her right arm and a January 2016 birth date, both of which match her. She has two quarters left, saved for an eraser when school starts.

She spends the coins at a pay phone outside a gas station convenience store in Pine Creek. Ethan Whitmore answers. He has spent seven years chasing leads, and he is already driving when she calls. She almost hangs up, afraid a DNA test will call her a liar, then gives him the birthmark, the birth date, and Brenda's admission that the Carters brought her home.

Ethan arrives and checks her right arm. He says, "I'm here to take you home." In the car, Gemma worries the test will say she is not his. Ethan does not wait for the result. She stays with him tonight. He takes her to Hudson Valley Children's Medical Center and orders a private pediatric suite, a full trauma workup, and an expedited DNA test.

At the hospital, the exam reveals years of old injuries and hypothermia. A DNA test confirms with 99.9999% certainty that Gemma is the Whitmore family's long-lost daughter. As her abusers face justice, Gemma returns to the family's Manhattan penthouse and begins healing in the love of her parents.