Drama - Romance - Comedy - Family Can the Jensen kids make it on their own after their parents’ deaths? Sixteen-year-old Sophie is determined to keep herself and her siblings in their own home. Twenty-six-year-old Ty, the resident handyman and household assistant to the orphaned siblings, lives in the travel trailer behind their garage in a deal arranged with their grandmother who lives 200 miles away. Their semi-independence is under the condition that if things don’t work out, Grandma will force the kids to move in with her. Ty, a family friend and high school dropout, is a necessary ...

Growing up in a deeply troubled family, 15-year-old Anna felt lost and alone in the world. So when a friendly taxi driver befriended her, Anna welcomed the attention, and agreed to go home with him to meet his family. She wouldn't escape for over a decade. Held captive by a sadistic pedophile, Anna was subjected to despicable levels of sexual abuse and torture. The unrelenting violence and degradation resulted in numerous miscarriages, and the birth of four babies.... each one stolen away from Anna at birth.

New school. Confusing relationships. Mean girl. Assumptions. Accusations. You know, typical high school stuff. Except for the skunk and the umbrella-wielding Japanese grandma. Those aren’t typical. * * * High school freshman Emi is falling for mysterious sophomore Joel. The problem is that Joel is her best friend’s fake boyfriend. Can Emi reveal her feelings and still keep her friendships? High school senior Alia, a runaway who lives with Emi’s family, knows her guy friend wants to move their relationship out of the friendzone. He is one of the few people who know of her tainted past ...

In the best-selling tradition of Smashed and The Glass Castle, this raw, eye-opening memoir tells the powerful story of Elizabeth Garrison's fractured childhood, descent into teenage drug addiction, and struggle to overcome nearly insurmountable odds. Elizabeth invites the listener behind the closed doors of a picture-perfect Christian family to reveal a dark, hidden world of child abuse, domestic violence, and chilling family secrets all performed in the name of God under the tyrannical rule of her father.

More than 2,000,000 children worldwide are bought and sold each year to be used as slaves. This could be just one of their stories.... When his parents agree to send Tavi off to a special school in the city that promises wealth and success, they have no idea that they are handing their son over to real life human traffickers. Tavi's excitement soon turns into horror as he learns what kind of a life he has been forced into and the things that are expected of him. As his world comes crashing down around him, he struggles to stay true to himself in the midst of the darkness. But when one of ...