If you and your identical twin have been swapping places all your lives what harm could it do? Especially, if you both have been fooling everyone including your parents. Well things could get deadly and did in the book Double Lives as Fiona and Leona find out just how tragic lying to yourself and others can be and the consequences that come with th…

Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speak…

What is your price for fame and a new life? Would you lie about your age? Evelyn Herrera describes her humble beginnings in Hell’s Kitchen in Manhattan, her desperation to escape a life of poverty and abuse, and her willingness to use her sexuality to do so: her mother dies when she is young, leaving her alone with her abusive father. Themed Drink …

If you were born different you looked different and your mother and father treated you like you were the outsider, they treated your younger sister better than you and you also had to look after her and protect her. How would you go about living your life? Would you have ran and made the same decisions as Elphaba Wicked: The Life and Times of the W…

Penelope “Nelly” Sawyer, a young African-American woman who has just arrived to attend her brother’s funeral. Nelly’s family has recently ascended to the upper echelons of Black society, thanks to her father’s success as a Kentucky horse breeder, famously dubbed “the Wealthiest Negro in America.” Despite their wealth, the Sawyers are constantly rem…

Yejide and Akin have been married since they met and fell in love at university. Though many expected Akin to take several wives, he and Yejide have always agreed: polygamy is not for them. But four years into their marriage--after consulting fertility doctors and healers, trying strange teas and unlikely cures--Yejide is still not pregnant. She as…

What would you do if you were raised as a girl all the way up to the age of 8. Then the moment you ask about periods your mother informs you and the rest of your male siblings that you are in fact a boy and not a girl named Perfect. You are then stripped down and head shaved and thrown into public at church to your whole congregation and small town…

What would you do if you went into middle school on the first day and your best friend betrayed you to be friends with the popular girls? And based on how you react will determine the remainder of your secondary schooling? Also, if you knew you were a bully, and they invited you on a week-long getaway even though you haven’t spoken nor apologized i…