Melinda's father acts strange, so she follows him to a secret event, but she is discovered. She soon learns that things are even darker than she thought, and he has to sacrifice her innocence to save them both from the monsters he is forced to work for. But they are still in danger, so our teenage heroine takes things into her own hand while their situation becomes more and more precarious. A debauched and thrilling tale.
Sixteen-year-olds Layla and Sophie had been best friends for years and years. As they got older, each had come to have feelings for the other, but neither had dared to express them. Then Sophie went on a trip to Europe with her parents, and what she learned there would change everything.
Most of the world was not aware of the racial discrimination and genocide by light-skinned blacks against dark-skinned or ink-black Africans. This story tells of the dream of a young ink-black girl who had a dream, and her journey to make it come to life.