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"Parent abuse can take on many different forms, from physical, emotional, and verbal, to financial abuse."--Lou PurplefairyMaddie's story raises the time-honored question of nature vs. nurture.Parents abused by adult children suffer silently, shamed to the marrow by words, moods, acts, and blows that pierce through their imagined bubble of safety and kidnap any notions they had of sharing a mutually loving relationship with their children.Maddie loved her daughters unconditionally . . . until, as a financially depleted and physically bruised senior citizen, she was forced to cut ties permanently with her adult descendants. Maddie's cruel and dysfunctional upbringing prompted her to smother her children with love, to soften the blows of life, even when consequences would have been a healthier, more effective choice.- Were Maddie's children tailored from the fabric of her soft heart to abuse and take advantage of their mother, despite her enduring passion to love and support them . . . regardless of the consequences?- Or were they impelled to abuse their mother because of biochemical disorders and volatile eruptions in their neural centers?Perhaps Maddie's children were born out of a fragile fusion of the two. In this book you will feel Maddie's turmoil as her callous children--who do all they can to hold power over her bottomless well of love--develop into brutal adults, and you will applaud her courage when she finally pushes shame aside and reaches her climactic end point.ABOUT THE AUTHORLucia Mann, humanitarian and activist, was born in British colonial South Africa in the wake of World War II. She now resides in British Columbia, Canada. After retiring from freelance journalism in 1998, she wrote a four-book African series to give voice to those who have suffered and are suffering brutalities and captivity. Visit www.LuciaMann.com for more information on how you can help alleviate the scourge of modern-day slavery.

From the "African Freedom Series"TWO TINY NEWBORNS WERE BURIED ALIVE IN A COMPOST PIT, covered with corn husks and left to die. A hungry wild dog, saliva flowing, stood impatiently over the mound. As it started to dig out its prey, an escaped slave whooshed it away. Drawn by the sound of a weak human cry, the runaway cautiously approached the mournful whimper. What could provoke a new mother to bury her twin babies alive? A will to protect her children from the inescapable pain and horror of becoming chattel to an evil South African plantation owner.Experience post-WWII Africa through the eyes of characters who unearth the painful secrets of those times: - Shiya, a white newborn rescued from an intended grave, who lives five idyllic years in the bush before she is captured, tormented, and eventually freed.- Anele, the black runaway slave who saves Shiya's life and suffers the consequences for the rest of her days.- Alan Hallworthy, the wealthy, cruel plantation owner who lusts for the bodies of young girls, even that of his own five-year-old daughter.- Brianna, Shiya's modern-day daughter who is mystified by her mother's secrets and never stops trying to reveal the truth.Lucia Mann's story exposes South Africa's crimes against humanity during and after British colonial rule. It takes you through a roller coaster of emotions as it describes South Africa from post-WWII to the modern day.ABOUT THE AUTHORLucia Mann, humanitarian and activist, was born in British colonial South Africa in the wake of World War II. She now resides in British Columbia, Canada. She retired from freelance journalism in 1998, and wrote her books to give voice to those who have suffered and are suffering brutalities and captivity. Visit www.LuciaMann.com and www.ReportModernDaySlavery.org for more information on how you can help alleviate the scourge of modern-day slavery.

The ten-year-old daughter of a Sicilian Mafia boss is cruelly kidnapped from her bedroom on the night of her glorious birthday celebration. She knows her captor well, and, until this night, has trusted him and held him fondly in her heart. Maria's prospects for rescue plummet as she is sold into child prostitution and eventually sent to a Holocaust death camp.Is it possible for a girl so misused for so long to emotionally endure the torment she suffered and still maintain a semblance of normalcy? The quest for an answer leads the reader on a zigzag journey through the bloodline of three generations, ending in the bowels of a Mafia mansion on the island of Sicily.In this book, you will experience the profound love of a daughter for her mother, and a granddaughter's misgivings about her crazed grandmother, the matriarch of a battered family: - Brianna, a successful law student who gives up everything to search for her beloved mother.- Lynette, Brianna's mother, a survivor of child-slavery in South Africa.- Maria, a kidnapped child who endures years of torment to eventually become the most powerful Mafia boss in Sicily.Lucia Mann's story explores the ugliness of child-slavery while it tests our attitudes toward revenge and mental health.About the AuthorLucia Mann, humanitarian and activist, was born in British colonial South Africa in the wake of World War II. She now resides in British Columbia, Canada. After retiring from freelance journalism in 1998, she wrote a four book African series to give voice to those who have suffered and are suffering brutalities and captivity. The other books in the series are: Rented Silence, CBC Book Award; Africa's Unfinished Symphony, Indie Excellence Award; and A Veil of Blood Hangs over Africa.Visit www.LuciaMann.com and www.ReportModernDaySlavery.org for more information on how you can help alleviate the scourge of modern-day slavery.