Rita Michaels

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...

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.

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...

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.

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,...

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...