Nadine Wilder lived a quiet life. Nothing excited ever happened until the day she was kidnapped. Her life was turned upside down from that day on. She was rescued by five incredible men. Five men who appeared to want her. She spent the next several weeks in protective custody with these men. At first Nadine didn’t understand what was happening. The men were all very affectionate. After she had been staying with the men for a few days strange things started happening. Someone was trying to get to Nadine. After several weeks the person finally was caught. It was her father. Her dead father. Nadine’s father tells his story and works with the men protecting her to end the threat not only to Nadine, but her sister Pricilla also. With
Anita’s father and uncle have a secret plan in which no one knows about that can help lead their family into freedom. A very important message is passed out asserting
The story also explains how Jacqueline’s life was changed forever. The story is extremely effective because it gets its point across by appealing to the compassionate side of the audience.
Ever since the age of three, Claireece Precious Jones suffered from sexual abuse from her father. Her mother knew about her husband raping her daughter be did nothing to stop and save her daughter from this man. Rather than taking out her anger on her husband she beats Precious until she is black and blue and accuses her for stealing her man. After the only man in their life leaves, the abuse does not stop it gets worse. Her mother begins to sexually abuse Precious as well and forces her to perform sexual acts on her.
Drew Jaymes is Peach Valley, Georgia’s bad boy. Orphaned at a young age and raised by his aunt. His dream of racing his passion, until he met a young woman with bright aqua eyes. One summer with her, his whole life changed. Nicole Bennett was part of a founding family of Peach Valley. A grandmother that was cold in life, yet was the only family she had once her parents had died in a car accident when she was a child of five. Her young life was spent in an all-girls school in Great Britain. Returning to Peach Valley before heading off to university, she met and fell in love with Drew and lost her innocence and her heart. Believing Drew’s love wasn’t real, she ran off to university and left Peach Valley, never wanting to return. Eleven years
Maya has a school assignment and needs to write about a person she would love to know better, she thinks about her biological parents but realizes that knows nothing about them. A.J and Amelia helped Maya figuring out a topic. Maya writes a figurative story about her mom, and her paper got elected for a story contest which she did not win. A.J feels disappointed, and wonders how she did not win. Lambianse dates with A.J's sister in law Ismay, and discovers that she had stolen Tamerlane. At the same time, A.J got to know that had developed a brain cancer that compromises his speaking ability. A.J got struck by the news and knew that had no money for the surgery, but Lambianse managed to convince Ismay returning Tamerlane anonymously. A.J
Quiet and emotionally exhausted, Naomi and Obasan retreat to bed. Naomi wakes and comes across a package from Aunt Emily, her mother’s sister. She reflects on Aunt Emily’s energetic crusades against racism, and for the remembrance and documentation of what happened to Japanese-Canadians during World War II. Naomi begins reflecting upon her childhood, beginning with her family’s beloved house in Vancouver. Significantly, she recalls her young self releasing chicks into a cage with a hen, not realizing the hen would peck the chick to death. Moreover, her neighbor Old Man Gower repeatedly molested Naomi when she was only four years old.
Wildwood is a story written by a writer named Junot Diaz. This story mainly focuses about a young girl called Lola. Lola lives in New Jersey with her single mother, and her brother called Oscar until she moves to her grandmother’s place. This little girl has a miserable relationship with her mother. Three things are important to Lola’s life: being responsible, being independent, and showing love to her grandmother.
Cammie Miller has lost everyone close to her. Her dad was shot when she was 12 and her mom died when she was 17 from breast cancer. After her mom dies, Cammie refuses to go into an orphanage and runs away. Then she gets an old apartment and lies about her age to rent it out.
Her father engages in a family Feud with his brothers and thus gets his parents killed. Monica leaves home and sets out to find a new life after. She is sold into slavery and forced to participate in drug trafficking by a city drug dealer. Life on the streets is unbearable, living conditions in that particular street are very unbearable, but she strives to survive. There are intolerable conditions, but she works and assembles all the resources that she needs to go back and find out what went down with her uncles to the extent that they decided to kill her father. Monica believes that both her parents are dead and now she is on her own. She learns from the drug dealing business a lot, she is willing to provide any help to the fellow girls, but it is beyond her reach. She hates the place, but she has to buy time for her plans to work. One of her clients is her lawyer, and they get fond of each other, she promised to process immigration papers for her. They grow fond of each other as she takes
When I opened this novel, I didn’t expect to get so sucked into the story that I stayed up way past what was appropriate considering my approaching early morning road trip - but that is the power that Barnes holds over me, and she has since Raised By Wolves. Tess and her sister have had a complicated relationship since her sister stopped contacting her years ago. But now, she’s back, and dragging Tess along to live with her in her DC house. Soon, Tess learns from her classmates that her sister is considered a “fixer”- she fixes things like permanent records, arrests, and other bad situations using her pleathera of contacts and secrets to get things going. Tess doesn’t admire her sister’s career, but she feels herself falling into the role of the high school fixer, until the secrets get deeper and more dangerous than she bargained for.
Nikki Thompson is an average girl living on her own, after her parents died in a terrible car accident and sister having moved away. One day she’s working her shift at the diner she works at. A strange man walks in one night, and sits down at a booth. To Nikki, he is just any other person she has to serve. But little did she know this man would bring her to a world she thought could never exist. It was as if she was living in a fairytale. The man tells her about her true destiny. He tells her that this “other” world needs her saving. Of course she doesn’t believe her at first, thinking the man to be a lunatic. She leaves the diner and returns home.
Chloe Miller is working as a bartender and trying to live her new life after serving as a federal agent and losing her identity i order to protect her. All is going fine, but in the tow of Repose when one man is attracted to you it usually means his siblings follow. She's not quite interested in meeting anyone after losing the man she loved and falling in love with a criminal. As she lets her guard down she starts to have feelings for three brothers. When the fourth one arrives she's shocked to see its the criminal she fell in love with and the man she took three bullets to her body to protect. Its a complicated situation, but disguising the truth may on;y last a short time. The one criminal that got away, is hunting her down and some bad cops,
Summary: Janie Crawford is a southern African-American woman who grows up under the care of her grandmother. Janie’s mother has her at seventeen and soon after Janie’s birth she becomes a drinker and stays out late until she leaves for good. Janie’s Nanny’s background of slavery makes her push Janie to be someone she could not be during her days. Nanny urges Janie to marry Logan Killicks. Janie is not in love with Logan, but Nanny and others push Janie to marry him. Janie thinks if she marries him, then she will start loving him. However, a marriage not built on the foundation of love will not last. While Janie struggles with her relationship with her husband, “she knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie’s first dream was dead, so she became a woman (24). Janie’s marriage with Logan diminishes her idea of a loving and romantic relationship. Janie spends a little over a year with Logan under miserable conditions, until she marries Joe Starks not long after. Mr. and Mrs. Starks move to a new town where they meet friendly townspeople. Not long after, Joe
Characters Joss Byrd is the protagonist of the story, she is a young actor that is just trying to survive, she is expected to live up to her mother's expectations, has to deal with her crush on her movie brother and has to hide one of her biggest secrets. Her secret is is that she is dyslexic, that secret could end her whole acting career and is hard enough to manage by itself. Through it all Joss pulls through happy and never gives up. Viva is Joss’s mother that is the main antagonist. Viva wants Joss to become successful and is willing to do whatever it takes even if Joss doesn’t want to.
“Who killed your parents Jackie? What is going on!”, I yelled as I realized I was so out of the loop. This was all too much for one moment. First the gash on her neck and now I find out her parents are dead. I started to wonder if she was crazy, how could they be dead and she just wanted to run away? Something had to be wrong, this could not be happening.