Fourteen-year-old Ayo flees forced marriage and joins Dahomey's legendary Agojie warriors. The initiation wall takes her breasts. Training takes her innocence. War takes her humanity.
She rises through the ranks through brilliance and brutality. Falls in love with a fellow warrior. Learns that in this system, caring means losing.
And discovers the strongest prison is the one we build ourselves.
One accident, that's all it takes. Just one accident, to turn your whole world upside down and make you question everything you though was certain. For Harry Anderson, the accident was bad enough, but the revelations it brought about meant his life would never be the same again.
Dirt-track race-car driver Mel Austin is badly injured in a crash and wakes up in the hospital being nursed by friend and fellow driver Arlene. They decide it's time to grow up and live a more conventional life, so marry and settle down to teaching and nursing, jobs they both like. But, they've been racing cars long enough that it's hard to stay away from the tracks and out of the cars on them... How can they scratch the itch without exposure to the danger?
Blond coed attending college in Minnesota is jilted by her boyfriend days before thanksgiving. She returns home to Chicago for the holiday where her brother is eagerly waiting. In love with her in a way he shouldn't be he realizes this may be the chance he'd been waiting for...
It was her eyes. He saw something in them. Something special. He had to do one good thing, then someone else could do another, until all the world's problems had been fixed, but he decided to start right then. If you read 'Little Sister', and wanted to know where the fancy jet fuel came from (JP-X), read on!! / (Reviews)