Books tagged: child abuse

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Watch Over Thy Child    by Cathy Worthington
Price: $2.99 USD. 88540 words. Published on May 23, 2011. .

Athens, Missouri, 1957 There could be no safer time nor place to be a child. Or so they thought. Eight-year-old Ruth Anne Carver saw something she shouldn't have, something she couldn't understand. Keeping that secret could lead to murder, but telling the truth might just be worse.
Most Likely    by Craig Hansen
Price: $3.99 USD. 62790 words. Published on May 24, 2011. .

Becky Howard is a teen under pressure. From her best friend not to speak about the abuse she's suffering, from her boyfriend to get more physical than she's ready for, and more. Sometimes growing up is about more than having sex, and that clinging to ideals might not be as helpful as learning to expect whatever is Most Likely. Most Likely is 63,000 words long and contains light Christian themes.
Sterling Place; a haunted house    by William Jervis
Price: $4.99 USD. 54590 words. Published on May 26, 2011. .

a true story of a huanted house set in brooklyn new york where the author grew up and set out on a spiritual journey that brought him full circle with the death of his brother and how that house twenty years after leaving it, still had it's hooks in his family.
Release    by A L Fetherlin
Price: $0.99 USD. 8150 words. Published on May 28, 2011. .

Two stories about release from the personal hell inflicted upon the protagonists. *Release at the Sundial* - A demon voice demands Dustin kill ten people before the shadow on the sundial reaches the six or hundreds of innocents will die. *Revenge Begets Release* - James has kidnapped five people he promises to kill with as much pain as they have inflicted upon him throughout his short life.
Drop Zone    by Graham Murray
Price: $0.99 USD. 2270 words. Published by Living Books USA  on June 4, 2011. .

A social worker has her hands full when she receives an unexpected call about one of her previous patients. The news is not good . . . not good at all - and it will take all she has to maintain control over the situation.
Harlan    by David Whitman
Price: $3.99 USD. 61540 words. Published by Crossroad Press  on June 7, 2011. .

Harlan is about a suicidal, death-obsessed teenager -- Harlan Sexton. Turning himself into a ticking bomb, he has decided to kill himself at the end of the school year unless his closest friend Julian can find a way to change his mind. And that's just the beginning--the tension is amped up by the return of his abusive father, a serial killer stalking his female classmates, & a feud with a jock.
Stranger in the House    by Lorilla Fonda Lehman
Price: $0.99 USD. 1580 words. Published on June 8, 2011. .

Stranger In The House comes from real life experiences, the ones we all want to forget. There is a great misunderstanding about who a child abuser is. This book is written to be used as a tool for dialog between children and adults. So many times, by the time we warn children of potential abuse someone has already harmed them.
Be Careful What You Wish For    by R.K. Avery
Price: $5.99 USD. 84350 words. Published by Brighton Publishing LLC  on June 12, 2011. .

Bunting Valley, North Dakota, a town where nothing dreadful ever happens, is a place where people feel safe leaving their doors unlocked at night. The story follows Bea Miller, a penniless widow and mother of four young boys, who is living a meager existence. Unable to have any more children Bea decides to take matters into her own hands kidnap a beautiful little girl to keep for her own.
Little Box of Horror    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $3.99 USD. 15330 words. Published by Olo Books on June 15, 2011. .

Award-winning author Melissa Yuan-Innes gathers three of her most disquieting tales, "Skin Song," "The Dormitory of the Friable Little Girls," and "Mrs. Marigold's House" for your reading (dis)pleasure. From a medical student rightfully afraid of dissecting a cadaver to sadistic nuns and vampire schoolgirls, come in and open this little box of horror.
Mrs. Marigold's House    by Melissa Yuan-Innes
Price: $1.99 USD. 5600 words. Published by Olo Books on July 6, 2011. .

Every Hallowe'en, Mrs. Marigold invites only six children to her mansion. One boy, Adam, warns Ashley away, but her parents, desperate to get in good with the richest woman in town, force her to go. Trick or treat? Trick. Definitely trick. The question is if Ashley can get out alive. "Yuan-Innes delivers a Bradburyian shocker in 'Mrs. Marigold's House'.....Highly recommended."-Paul Di Filippo