Debbie by B James 

Debbie Lytle Meads had gone through a traumatic sexual abuse by two drug dealer brothers and put into prostitution during her teenage years. She tells her brother, Leon. He takes her to get an abortion. He is sentenced to life in prison when he kills the brothers. When she turns eighteen, their friend, Allan Meads marries her and they move to New Jersey.

Brian, the drug dealers younger brother fi nd them and forces Allan go to New York every weekend to sell his drugs threatening to take Debbie back to New York. Allan gets sick with cancer and Debbie won’t leave his side and refuses to go to New York and Brian starts beating her.

Allan dies and Debbie takes a photo to his sister, Josephine who was married to Samuel Palts and who knew nothing about his existence. Sam fi nds out Josephine had gotten an abortion at eighteen, had her tubes tied and he gets an annulment and he and Debbie then fall in love.

Vanetta, Samuel’s older sister has a best friend named Tanya Tamms, and Tanya with her mother, Sharon who want her dead because Tanya wants Samuel.

Debbie takes things into her own hands to try and stop Tanya and Sharon so that she can finally relieve herself and Sam of the two burdens in their lives.