Rita Michaels

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...

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,...