Thirteen-year-old Lakshmi leaves her poor mountain home in Nepal thinking that she is to work in the city as a maid, only to find that she has been sold into the sex slave trade in India and that there is no hope of escape.

Two cowboys--one old the other young, set off to seek their fortune driving a herd of horses across the West. Before long they find themselves risking everything to save five kidnapped Chinese girls from a life of prostitution. Thus begins an epic and perilous journey that changes forever the fates of these young girls, their unlikely guardians, and the other characters they meet along the way.

When pretty, smart Sara is found bludgeoned to death, it's easy to blame the man with the bat. But Georgia finds a much different darker answer on Chicago's North Shore- privileged schoolgirls have learned just how much their innocence is worth to hot-under-the-collar businessmen.

Jana entered the Czechoslovak police force as a young woman, married an actor, and became another. The communist regime destroyed her husband, their love for one another, and her daughter's respect for her. But she never stopped being seeker of justice. Now Jana has risen to the rank of commander in the Slovak police force. Based in Bratislava, she laises with colleagues across the continent to track a master criminal whose crimes include extortion,...

Josie, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a French Quarter prostitute, is striving to escape 1950 New Orleans and enroll at prestigious Smith College when she becomes entangled in a murder investigation.

After attending college in New York, Chase returns to Vegas and is drawn into the lucrative but dangerous world of a teenage call-girl service with his childhood friend Michele, a beautiful Salvadoran immigrant with whom he shares a tragic past. Over the course of one extraordinary summer, they will confront the violence and emptiness at the heart of the city and their generation. At once stark and electrically atmospheric, horrifying and hopeful,...

Tyesha Couvillier becomes the new director of the Lower East Side Women's Health Clinic and works to stop local exotic dancers from being turned into sex workers. Meanwhile, she deals with the trauma of being a past sex workers herself, as well as having a high-drama family. And a notorious celebrity ex-lover is out to win back her heart.

Following the death of her father, seventeen-year-old Rosie Velvitt plans to escape a physically and emotionally threatening home life with her stepmother and her boyfriend by earning cash by arranging tricks for her best friend Mary to finance Rosie's search for the birth mother she believed was dead.

Hospitalized in Brooklyn, New York, fourteen-year-old Michelle recalls being raised in Philadelphia by a loving grandfather and drug-addicted mother before running away and getting lured into prostitution.

"Sixteen-year-old friends Red, Leo, Rose, and Naomi are misfits; still figuring out who they are and who they want to be. Life isn't perfect, but music unites them, and they're excited about what the future holds for their band, Mirror, Mirror. That is until Naomi vanishes before being pulled unconscious out of the river. She's left fighting for her life in a coma. The police claim it was a failed suicide attempt, but her friends aren't convinced....