Minx Marvel

 The print and Kindle ebook versions of my new novel Minx Marvel are now available. Minx started out as a novella, but then bloomed to over 64,000 words so had to be classified as a novel.

This book falls into the same category as The Worth of a Woman. Both books deal with the sexual exploitation of young females. In The Worth of a Woman, 15-year old Jade is sold at auction to the highest bidder and basically becomes that man's sex slave in a dystopian future society. Jade just cannot be untrue to her own self and constantly angers and frustrates her owner. In being her own self she discovers a plot against him at the risk of her own life, which doesn't go unnoticed. Not knowing what else to do with her, Archer sends her away to learn the healing arts. He discovers the worth of a woman in Jade.

In Minx Marvel, Minx is the now twenty-three year old daughter of a controversial but talented artist. She returns home from studying art and painting in England, renting her former family home while she plans the path into her future. Only a man shows up wanting paintings her father had made of her when she was a child. The shocking details of her childhood, when she was sexually abused by her father and other adult men between the ages of three and eleven, rocks the town. Minx never intended any of the past to be exposed, but when the man is killed in an accident on the property the stain of the past begins to spread and threaten her future with the one man she has ever fallen in love with, the one man she trusts, a book shop owner. Child pornography and the sexual abuse of children is not an easy subject to write about. It saddens some, it angers and fills others with outrage. This is Minx's story, a work of fiction. She's been victimized by men in the past, and is again victimized by the public as a victim of that abuse. As she begins to confront the shadows and demons of her past she finds a safe home, a new family who loves her and supports her. As shocking crimes against other young women who were victims of the same child pornography ring further rock the community Minx finds out who her real friends are. In order to move on, she needs to deal with the past. And as a result of staying, not running away and going into hiding, she discovers what her path in life will be.

Minx Marvel will not be for everyone. I tapped into my criminal justice background for this one.