Sam's daily challenges is far from having good grades and being a good boy. He dreads waking up to an intolerant stepfather and escaping to school into the traps of his bullies. His struggles to keep up with his grades is proving futile as his ordeal grows by the day. He loses the only girl who made him feel loved and accepted to cancer, and then turns into the monster his tormentors created. Once and for all standing up for himself and taking the others down with him.

This is an anthology of four novellas by Rita Michaels. Abused - A young girl's silent cry for help as her father does the unthinkable to her, and her younger sister. Aliens - Cathy McCain's childhood nightmare returns, and this time, she is old enough to know they are real. Broken - Jessica Hanes' life crumbles down the day her mother dies of a drug overdose. With no knowledge of any close relative, she shuffles from one foster home to another, and falls into the wrong hands. The other side of him - After a long distance relationship that successfully led to a marriage, Sophia settles down...

What if you realize that your life has been a lie and everything you hold dear could easily slip from your fingers? Aurora Scea, having lost an only sister, believes she's seen it all until she returns to school and series of events begins to occur. Two mysterious boys enroll in her school and vie for her friendship. She's smitten by both, but she soon finds that they aren't strangers; her life is woven around theirs, and she isn't what she thought she was. They are determined to win her over; each having his agenda. Curious to know the full mystery behind her existence, she ventures into the...

Aisha is a young girl forcefully married to a wealthy forty-year-old man. The poverty in her family is heightened by the drought in her country. Daily, she visits her mother's dry farmland, praying for rain to fall and moisten the soil. She knows all hope is lost. Having sustained her family for as long as he could, after her father's sudden disappearance, her uncle decides the marriage is their last resort. She must marry her old suitor, or bear the responsibility should her mother and younger ones perish in poverty. Aisha weighs her options and decides to marry, with a hidden agenda that...