Rita Michaels
1) Alien
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The city is Manhattan. On a chilly fall night, Cathy McCain's childhood nightmare returns, and this time, she is old enough to know they are real. The mysterious appearance and disappearance of her pregnancies are frightening.She keeps night vigils to foil her abduction by the alien beings from another dimension, who takes her against her will. She is powerless against them, and her efforts yield nothing.To avert a mental case title, she keeps her...
2) Silent Tears
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Precy Bee was only five-years-old, when the civil war that devastated her country and claimed the lives of over two hundred and fifty thousand people ended. The Liberians sighed with relief and began to piece their economy together, but not for long.
While Precy and her family humbly live their low standard lifestyle, Ebola slowly creeps into her country and deals them a fatal blow, shaking the very foundation of her family.
Once again, her people...
3) Bully
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Sam finds school depressing. Daily, he dreads contact with his schoolmates, who makes it difficult to concentrate on his studies. His determination to finish school is dwindling. Disconsolate from losing the only girl, who loved and supported him, and from the school authority ignoring the heinous acts against him, he prepares to end his life, but not without leaving some history behind.
4) Abused
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Twelve-year-old Mary Braga prays all the time, much more than other little girls her age. Every Sunday, before she goes to the Sunday-school class taught by her own father, she cries and begs for the bad thing not to happen again. She prays that Daddy will get better, that he'll quit hurting her in the way that makes her feel like she wants to throw up. She especially prays that her mother will figure it out and rescue her.Despite such horrific circumstances,...
5) Child Bride
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Aisha is a young girl forcefully married to a wealthy forty-year-old man.
The poverty in her family is heightened by the drought in her country. Daily, she visits her mother's dry farmland, praying for rain to fall and moisten the soil. She knows all hope is lost.
Having sustained her family for as long as he could, after her father's sudden disappearance, her uncle decides the marriage is their last resort. She must marry her old suitor, or bear...
6) Fairyland
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What if you realize that your life has been a lie and everything you hold dear could easily slip from your fingers? Aurora Scea, having lost an only sister, believes she's seen it all until she returns to school and series of events begins to occur.
Two mysterious boys enroll in her school and vie for her friendship. She's smitten by both, but she soon finds that they aren't strangers; her life is woven around theirs, and she isn't what she thought...
7) Finding Me
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Tonia Enahoro is a regular schoolgirl studying relentlessly to escape from her detested Makoko Island water home in the future. Edward Landis is a rich, biracial newbie who found companionship in Tonia at school. Tonia lives with her aged single mother; Edward also lives with his aged grandmother. They come from two different social statuses but live in the slums. Over the years, their friendship develops. Edward wants to take things to the next level,...
8) Broken
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Jessica Hanes' life crumbles down the day her mother dies of a drug overdose. With no knowledge of a close relative, she is, shuffled from one foster home to another. Her life is far from being happy, or stable. She is broken.
She yearns for a real family and a lovely home, and warms up to her new adoptive mother's brother, who treats her like his little sister, but she is in for a surprise, when she realizes, he has a plan against her. Refusing...
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Sofia daydreams of a comfortable life beyond the slums of Ecuador and hopes a man, young or old, would come and sweep her off her feet and off the coast of her country.Then one day her star shines as she stumbles into George at a mall in Ecuador; he is single, a tourist, and finds Sofia attractive. After series of communication, he proposes, marries, and sponsors her to Canada, and then her nightmare begins.George has changed, and Sofia misses being...
10) Mermaid Spell
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On a hot summer day, and on a popular beach; while soaking in the beauty of nature, Colin encounters an entity different from his kind. He is ,cast under a spell by a mermaid and sucked beneath, the beach water ,where he is, taken to an unknown world. He is, assigned on a mission, against his human kind, and given certain rules, to follow in exchange for his heart desire.
With time, he gets too comfortable and breaks a golden rule requiring him to...
11) Blind Love
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Sienna Miller breaks up with Logan a night before their high school graduation, ten years later, destiny brings them back together again. Sparks fly, but Logan is hesitant. He has moved on and become a priest, and there is too much to lose now. Sienna is persistent and stops at nothing to woo him back. Logan falls for her, their love blossoms, that is, until her illness returns as a curse, exposing their secret relationship.
12) Trafficked
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Anna is from a poor home. It's only a matter of time before she loses her sick younger sister to a deadly illness. Without money for constant medical care, she would die.
Anna seizes an opportunity to travel abroad, but she is in for a surprise, when she finds herself among trafficked teenagers heading to Italy. Caged in a web of human trafficking, she must either choose to flee from her nightmare, or stay and prevent her sister from dying.