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Rumer plans to reinvent herself and be a star while she on a college campus for a summer program. She attracts the attentions of Dante, a graduate teaching assistant and star athlete and is swept off her feet by his flattery and attentions. She soon finds that that a grown up relationship is more than she bargained for as Dante and his friends take over her life and he pushes her around, both literally and figuratively. Rumer begins to feel isolated and alone until she finds an unlikely ally in Dante's almost ex-girlfriend, Ranisha. Will they join forces to stop Dante's reign of abuse?

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Nina Foxx is an award-winning filmmaker, playwright, and novelist. She writes as both Nina Foxx and Cynnamon Foster. Her work has appeared on numerous bestseller lists around the country, and her films have won awards at the Sundance Film Festival, the Tribeca Film Festival, Cannes, Urban MediaMakers Film Festival and the Rome International Film Festival. Her plays have been featured as part of the Intiman Summer Theater Festival. She is the recipient an African American Literature Award in both Young Adult Fiction for her book, Catfish (Brown Girls Books), and Best Anthology for A Letter for My Mother (Simon & Schuster) as well as an NAACP Image Award Nominee (Momma: Gone), which was also shortlisted for a Doctorow Award in Innovative Fiction. Originally from Jamaica, New York, she lives with her family near Seattle, Washington, where she works in Human-Computer interaction for a major software company.

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