A story about the deadly consequences of using an arranged marriage to cover statutory rape. When Rose became pregnant at age 15, panic set it and her mother was adamant that disgrace would not come down on the family. In her quest to find a compromised solution between her Christian beliefs and destruction of her daughter's future, she brought the perpetrator into negotiation. At the end of the negotiation, Rose was on the way to becoming a wife and her baby was to be born in wedlock. This, however, set the foundation for the biggest turmoil that Rose's mother was to have experienced. In a...

Sometimes you see someone and you know they have strong views or opinions on many things. If you are lucky, you will one day get to know those views and opinion. If not, you just have to speculate the inner thoughts of that person. Paul O. Beale, however, has made it his public duty to make his views on romance and sex known. This volume of poems contains a lot of his artistic expressions about great phenomena called love, sex and romance.