Mayuree (A Story of Modern Day Slavery)

Everett Kennedy seemed to have it all: wealth, family, a house in the suburbs. But he also had a secret that spanned decades: a woman--a slave. She was the source of his greatest shame and the key to his redemption. They were from different worlds. He was born into privilege; she was born into poverty. He was only a child when Mayuree was sold to Everett's family, bought by his grandfather and exploited as a servant and sexual surrogate. To the men in Everett's family, she was a no one, nothing more than a body to be used, but to him, she was everything. Despite the barriers between them--language, age, social status--they had each other. Her arrival changed the trajectory of his life and shaped his identity, stopped him from becoming a man who, like his father and grandfather, committed crimes and buried them under a cushion of wealth. At every turn, Mayuree was his comfort, his guiding light, but she was also the thorn in his side--how could he bear witness to the atrocities committed in his father's home, the degradation of the person who meant the most to him? How could he free them both? Some of us die in our prisons. Some of us are saved. Ma: A Story of Modern Day Slavery is the story of a transformative love that lasted a lifetime.