Damaged by Kia Dupree

Camille is what some may call “damaged goods.” Both her foster parents have emotionally and sexually abused her, and there’s nothing she can do about it until she turns to her boyfriend, Chu, for help. He may be a mid-level drug dealer, but he’s the one person she can trust. Now free from her parents, she starts to feel more secure than she ever has. Until Chu’s brutally murdered…. With nowhere else to turn, she ends up living in a rundown tenement building with a group of women in similar straits, who are all forced to work for a deranged pimp named Nut to survive. But Camille will soon start to see that her past doesn’t have to dictate her future, as she fights her way off the streets in this engrossing, heart-wrenching novel.