Violence Girl

Book #15 in the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series Jab and his student trackers discover a commonality among missing teenage girls: they were all Girl Scouts! Worse, they deduce a heinous motive: 100 dead Girl Scouts at the 100th anniversary of the Girl Scouts. As more bodies are found, it’s up to Jab’s team to stop the person responsible—before any more Girl Scouts are killed!

A collection of stories: The Possessed Printer Blues: A woman buys a printer at a yard sale. The Long Day Sun: A photography student helps out a friend. Savory Taro Pudding: A short nightmare based on true events. Billionaire Babies: It turns out you can't trust billionaires. Bath Salts Vampire: Teen girls with low self-esteem + a drug dealer who thinks he's an ancient vampire. What could go wrong?

Finally, Amira is 12. Old enough to wear a toob, old enough for new responsibilities. And maybe old enough to go to school in Nyala - Amira's one true dream. But life in her peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when the Janjaweed arrive. The terrifying attackers ravage the town and unleash unspeakable horrors. After she loses nearly everything, Amira needs to dig deep within herself to find the strength to make the long journey - on foot - to safety at a refugee camp.

You are a fighter but that doesn't mean it is okay for you to be hit. So what you grew up not calling the police sometimes you just need some help. Your not alone, it is happening everywhere, but you don't have to be a victim. As you read my story please don't feel sorry for me I survived, find your hope, healing and if the situation is still happening your strength to escape from it.

An earl's daughter reduced to servitude... After losing her leg in an accident when she was eight years old, Nora Seymour has never felt whole. Years later, her stepfather’s passing and her mother’s declining health have left her at the mercy of the baron Thomas Bradley, her cruel stepbrother, and his callous wife Josephine. With only her sickly mother and their loyal maid, Helen, to offer any respite, Nora escapes into the secret novels she writes in the privacy of her room. One night, when Thomas’ abuse turns violent, Nora flees into the woods for her usual hiding place—the old ...

Lydia Cacho lleva al lector de la mano por un viaje emocionante en el que encuentra la voz de las víctimas de las mafias tratantes de mujeres en México.

Life was fickle. It can also be twisted, cruel, and keep you lost and confused. Mila Life seemed infinite when I was younger. The possibilities endless. I believed I had time to figure out my next step. Time to plan my future. I was the fleeting girl next door. Always buzzing from one day to the next with no real plan, no real destination. That’s the thing about life. It made you promises. It whispered sweet nothings in your ear. Spreading Poisoned lies. My life was planned, and I wasn’t in on the details. The day I turned eighteen, I learned the hard way that life only told you what ...

After surviving a brutal attack that claims the lives of those she loves, a young woman seeks revenge on a corrupt town. Going back home is never easy, but for Casey, it means returning to her corrupt hometown where she barely survived a brutal attack. Accompanied by two family friends, she seeks justice for the night that destroyed her life. Her physical scars are nothing compared to her emotional ones, forcing the local sheriff to believe that the town darling is back for revenge. As the conspiracy for her revenge appears to be leading up to the coveted town fair, the sheriff is ...

A barrel-chested man, stripped to the waist, dragged a massive wooden door open at our approach. The door was set in a thirty-foot high wall that ran for several hundred yards. Inside we saw our first couple of wudra. Sin and I stood with our jaws hanging open. They were exactly like Chinese dragons, with gold-coloured scales except where lines of emerald green made shimmering patterns against the gold. Three men with hoses were spraying the wudra, both of which had their great, golden eyes with the vertical slit pupils, half-closed in bliss. The hoses played up and down their thirty-foot ...

The girl does not respond to questions in any language and remains silent, even when she is threatened, harassed, and mistreated over several days. The only clue to her identity is a tattered shoulder bag containing papers that refer to people named Shauzia, Nooria, Leila, Asif, Hassan - and Parvana. As she waits for foreign military forces to determine her fate, she remembers the past four years of her life. Reunited with her mother and sisters, she has been living in a village where her mother managed to open a school for girls.

This book was written to help mitigate some of the confusion, anxiety and pain Professional Women endure who may be seeking to be in a lasting monogamous relationship or marriage. These are my own experiences and research that I have done throughout my life, from the past 40 years. I hope to equip you with the tools and knowledge to make wiser decisions on a matter that will devastatingly affect your spiritual life, your personal life, your moral compass, your family, as well as your finances. This is me sharing my own pains of depression, anxiety, suicidal thoughts, and humiliation, as a ...

Take a look at the diary of the new kid at school. Farai's new school has a culture of violence. On his second day at the school, Farai finds out that someone is bullying his little sister, Rudo. Trying to protect Rudo, Farai challenges Giant Joe, one of the school’s most feared boys, to a fistfight. A date is set for the fight and the whole school waits in anticipation. Farai hates fighting, but he is now powerless to stop the fight. Farai is also torn between Nyasha, the most popular girl at the school, and Rachel, the school outcast. He likes Nyasha and he feels sorry for Rachel. He ...

She’s been threatened, jailed, beaten, and now banished, but she keeps fighting. Because now her friends and family are in danger. And if she’s honest with herself, it’s all her fault, her responsibility. But how do you fight back against oppression without endangering the people you love? Estelle just wants peace. William. Her farm. It’s time to end this. But how? Should she stay and fight, or run away? And if there’s a third way does she have the courage and strength to find it? An exciting and dramatic coming of age drama that will inspire, a romance you'll rave about, a boy ...

Jane Pool likes her safe, suburban existence just fine. She has a house, a family, (an infuriating mother-in-law,) and a quiet-if-unfulfilling administrative job at the local college. Everything is wonderfully, numbingly normal. Yet Jane remains haunted by her past: her mercurial, absent mother, her parents’ secrets, and the act of violence that transformed her life.

When the government disappears someone she loves, rescue is the only option. Estelle won the right to a simpler life at the edge of bright glittering New City. She is a celebrity dissident, tolerated by the Congloms, acclaimed by the youth of the city, and living the life of her dreams. Parties, pretty clothes, William, it’s all good. Or is it? Maybe it’s all a facade. Safe from a distance. And probably can’t last. Because the government won’t let her win. And when someone she loves disappears, Estelle fully learns the heavy cost of her defiance. An exciting and dramatic coming of ...

Foster carer Maggie Hartley is finally enjoying a well-earned holiday from fostering, savouring time with her brand-new baby granddaughter. One night, though, the peace and quiet is interrupted by an urgent call from Social Services. A man has been stabbed, and Social Services need to find an emergency placement for his little girl. Maggie is used to children arriving on her doorstep at all times of the day and night, but nothing can prepare her for the sight of 11-year-old Nancy.

Andrea McNulty has a wonderful life: she's a high school field hockey star, a doted-upon big sister, the beloved daughter of two happy parents. But when she wakes up in a motel room the morning after her eighteenth birthday, she's covered in blood and can't remember what happened the previous night. According to the news, Andi's parents were brutally attacked in the middle of the night. Her father is dead, her mother is in a coma, her little brother Josh is missing—and Andi is the prime suspect.

Sixteen-year-old Beau Willet has dreams of being an artist and one day leaving the Chicago projects she’s grown up in. But after her older sister, Katia, is killed by an off-duty police officer, Beau knows she has to clear her sister’s name by finding the only witness to the murder; Katia’s no-good boyfriend, Jordan, who has gone missing. If she doesn't find him and tell the world what really happened, Katia's death will be ignored, like the deaths of so many other Black women who are wrongfully killed.

Book #16 of the Jab Boone Murder Mystery Series FBI ASAC Mickey O’Malley receives a desperate voicemail from a trapped teenage girl. Together with Jab and three other FBI agents, Mickey invades the underbelly of Miami. They not only rescue the girl but dare her vicious captors for a showdown. Jab reluctantly enlists a Mexican drug-lord to quash the Miami syndicate despite the disapproval from his FBI superiors! But he reasons that is the only way to stop the Miami drug lords from trapping more teenage girls!

You can run from your past, but the truth will always find you. Luckiest Girl Alive is an intense, compulsive debut thriller, described by Reese Witherspoon as 'the kind of book that grabs you and doesn't let go'. Now a New York Times best seller and optioned for film by Reese Witherspoon and her production partner, Bruna Papandrea, in conjunction with Lionsgate Films. Her perfect life is a perfect lie....