Some say high school was the glory days -- the best they ever had. I call bullsh!t. High school was the worst...the cliques, the mean girls, the stupid boys. But my life has taken an 180-degree turn since then, and I'm no longer the girl I was back then. Until my high school reunion brought it all rushing back...the good, the bad, the ugly, and the memories I'd rather leave forgotten. I thought I was ready for this...ready to face him again. Can anything ever really change between old friends?

Graham Tate-Fuller needs a wife. Not just any wife. One who is young enough to take on his education mission to the African continent and not ask too many questions about his past. Lisbette Caldwell is just seventeen, a young woman who isn't ready to give up her tomboy ways. She dreams of playing football and becoming a teacher just like her father. Through a series of circumstances beyond her control, Lisbette marries Graham and embarks on an adventure in Eyubea, a small independent township in southern Africa which managed to escape the colonial rule that overtook many other African nations. There Lisbette settles into her new life as an assistant teacher to a small group of young girls who will have no choice but to become wives and mothers. It's a simple enough task that will turn into a fight for their lives as Graham's past catches up to them and Lisbette faces the dark side of marriage in a land not her own. Set in the early 1900's, Lisbette is forced to take a stand for herself and her Eyubea Girls against stacked odds, even if it means losing the life she's come to love. With the help of new friends and a will to carve out her own place in the world, she searches for a way to live life on her own terms in a place she will come to call home. This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are either the product of the author's imagination or used fictitiously, and any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, business establishments, events or locales is entirely coincidental. Eyubea Girls All rights reserved. Copyright 2014 © Palessa Cover by JRA Stevens