Kategoria BISAC: Young Adult Fiction >> Social Themes - Physical & Emotional Abuse (see also Social Themes - Sexual

Elpida: Book Two

High school senior Michael Sattler leads a charmed life. Almost. He has great friends, parents who love him just the way he is, and he was a champion hurdler until someone took out his knee when they kidnapped his boyfriend. Yet, Michael is determined to make the USATF tryouts in spite of his injuries.

Christy Castle is Michael's entire world. Healing from years of abuse, his abduction by a predator has left him hiding a new secret as he tries to start his life again. Together, Michael and Christy work to recover...

The 2014 Winner of the William C. Morris Award

When you've been kept caged in the dark, it's impossible to see the forest for the trees. It's impossible to see anything, really. Not without bars . . .

In Stephanie Kuehn's brilliant debut Charm & Strange, Andrew Winston Winters is at war with himself.

He's part Win, the lonely teenager exiled to a remote Vermont boarding school in the wake of a family tragedy. The guy who shuts all his classmates out, no matter the cost.

He's part Drew, the angry young boy with violent impulses that control him. The...

When Naomi Jensen is kidnapped, it takes her parents two days to realize she's missing. Escape isn't high on her list of priorities when all she has to return to is an abusive boyfriend and parents who never paid much attention to her. For the first time in her life she's part of a family--even if it is a family of criminals. But she's still a captive. In a desperate attempt to regain some control in her life, Naomi embarks on a dangerous plan to make one of her kidnappers think she's falling in love with him. The plan works too well, and when faced with the chance to escape, Naomi isn't...

"It would kill the past, and when that was dead he would be free."

Aurora Daniels just wants to get through Year 12 with no distractions.
Then, Cole Fielding comes along.
She is instantly drawn to him but isn't sure he's the sort of guy she should fall for--he smokes, he's unreliable, gets into fights, and just exudes bad boy.
But, Cole hides an intelligence that speaks to her.
As they get closer, so does Cole's harrowing past. Can she believe in someone who can't believe in himself? Maybe...

When everything changed, Kelli thought she would be happy. But nothing really changed.

Kelli's life has never been easy. She's always faced her problems head on. She's strong and savvy and in charge of herself. All of that is about to change. Her life is turned upside down when she discovers the secret that her mother has been hiding from her for years. Kelli thinks it is her one chance at happiness. But is it?

Elpida, tome 3

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Christy a EtE libErE d'une vie d'esclavage depuis un an et a fait de remarquables progrEs, en grande partie grAce A l'amour qu'il a trouvE auprEs de Michael. Mais le rEcent procEs d'un...