The Gatekeeper

Patience Robinson is a fifteen year old African American teen, abused, terrified but obligated to endure the torment and gilt of the sudden passing of her beloved grandmother. Her guilt causes her to struggle to survive the physical and emotional abuse from her grief- stricken uncle Trevor and fraternal twelve year old twin brothers Theo and Marcus. She hates her life and frustrated and broken she plots to escape but the plantation will never let her leave. She is the fourth generation of a...