Held against her will and raped by her 38-year-old boss, 19-year-old Anna tries to make sense of her unbelievable situation. How did an innocent friendship with her boss turn into weeks of forced sex and the inability to leave her oppressors side? Furthermore, what happens when weeks of rape result in a pregnancy?
This true-life novel depicts a graphic and raw recounting of the unimaginable horrors of the Summer of 2010. (Some names and identifying features have been changed)
The test comes back Positive.
The front page of the newspaper reads:
"ABANDONED! 18 Year Old Daughter of Local Drug Dealer Left Alone While Family Awaits Trial"
The letters say "I miss you"
What is my life? How can I go from being top at my school to being pregnant? How can I go from having a good life to having everything I've ever known rip apart at the seams?
I am an orphan. I have no home because my family was arrested on drug charges and I haven't seen my dad in years. All I have is this belly and my boyfriend, I have to do it. For the baby.
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Emilee Lynn Ali, a smart, ambitious high school senior who has had her 10 year plan set in stone since she was 12 is thrown into one bad situation after another. See how she deals with getting her life in order while dealing with the possible reconciliation of her, her parents, her brother, her father's new family; dealing with the idea of loss- losing her mother to addiction, and trust which she has to force herself to do when she finds out she is expecting her first child at 18.