That magic moment for a teen. The realization that the person you've liked is a little more than a friend. Chance meetings. Old friendships. Even a social media post. These can all lead to that first love. Authors M.A. Cortez, Gloria Weber, Vanayssa Somers, Margaret Egrot, Josie Montano, K.C. Sprayberry, Pauline Prentiss, and Mya O'Malley bring you tales of teens in the throes of their first romance.
In her fifteenth year, Kathryn Bond's life was thrown off course by a violent crime. Headed for Olympic glory, she instead began a long journey toward healing, her dreams having turned to dust. One day she sat down to write a romance novel and began a career that would make her the most popular romance author in the world and a multi-millionaire before she turned thirty. But her dreams of romance remained on the computer screen and in her books, for she could not recover from the long-ago attack which had changed the course of her life. She avoided men at all costs, if she possibly could. Her dreams of being kissed, of having a strong pair of arms around her, remained that - only dreams. But her married friends never gave up, sure they could find for her that special someone who would heal those terrifying memories once and for all. One day, her world turned upside down again, when an experienced war correspondent walked into her life. A man who understood everything. And understood her. Just when it was all coming together for Kathryn, a phone call brought life-altering news. A child was coming into her life, an orphaned little girl, whose addicted mother had died. A child who had been damaged by abuse and needed one thing above all else-she needed healing. With her lover's help, Kathryn has to face her demons once and for all, and rise above them, to meet the needs of this broken child.
Enjoy these ten stories from a group of very talented authors. We celebrate the Winter Holidays around the world, brought to you by a multinational group of authors, with various traditions and one theme-joy and happiness. M.H. Newhouse, Malay A. Upadhyay, K.C. Sprayberry, A.A. Schenna, S Cu'Anam Policar, Vanayssa Somers, Margaret Egrot, April Erwin, Mya O'Malley, E.B. Sullivan.
A massive shipping container stands open and waiting on the dock of a huge port city, in almost any country. A truck drives up and a load of human beings, in this case, youngsters, are off loaded and packed inside the crate. A crane lifts the container. It takes its place among dozens of other gigantic shipping containers, all locked together on board a freighter. A week or two later, the container is lifted once more and deposited on another dock, thousands of miles from home. At some point, the kidnappers unlock the crate and those souls who have survived the ocean journey are gathered up and taken somewhere to be sold. Sold as slaves for either sex, or hard labor, or both. For the remainder of their lives. Behind them, their country; their birthrights; their families; their rights to education, freedom of speech, equality, all the things we take for granted. Shocking enough when it takes place on the other side of the world. More so, when it takes place in America, and the youngsters being kidnapped are American children. Melchior, King of Fairies, and Theresa, a young American woman are passionately in love, soon to be wed. But a new purpose takes hold of these two magical Wizards as they discover the hazards young people face, unknowingly, every time they step outside their home. In any country on earth. Even ours.
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