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Bought and Sold (Part 1 of 3) Kindle Edition

by Megan Stephens (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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A heart-stopping story of lies, brutality and fear. British girl Megan Stephens tells the true story of how an idyllic Mediterranean holiday turned into an unimaginable nightmare when she was tricked into becoming a victim of human trafficking and held captive for six years by deception, threats and violence.

While on holiday with her mother at a popular Mediterranean coastal resort, Megan fell in love. Just 14 years old, naïve and vulnerable, she had no reason to suspect that the man who said he loved her would commit the ultimate betrayal of her trust.

When her mother returned to England, Megan stayed with Jak, who said he would find her a job as a waitress and promised they would be together forever. But when Megan travelled to the city with Jak, his attitude quickly changed and instead of finding her work as a waitress, he allowed her to be raped and then sold her to a human trafficker.

Abandoned by Jak but still unable to accept that everything he’d told her had been a lie, Megan was coerced by threats and violence into working as a prostitute in private homes and brothels. Then the trafficker threatened her mother’s life and it was Megan’s turn to lie: sending her mother the staged photographs that had been taken of her apparently working as a waitress in a cafe, she told her she was happy.

Too frightened and bewildered to trust or reach out to anyone, Megan remained locked in a world of brutality and abuse for six years. In the end, there only seemed to be one way out.

Megan’s powerful story reveals the devastating realities of human trafficking and the fear that imprisons its victims more effectively than any cage could ever do.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00LXL37UK
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperElement (January 29, 2015)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ January 29, 2015
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1966 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 67 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.9 3.9 out of 5 stars 2,813 ratings

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3.9 out of 5 stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars What a story! I’m eager to read the next part
Reviewed in the United States on February 12, 2021
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Great writing style.. kept me reading non stop

This testimony really evokes an emotional response

I connected with the girl!
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NannyTrutru80901
4.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't Put it Down
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2022
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This book was great! Couldn't put it down but was disappointed to see that if you want to see how things go after that, you have to pay. What a bummer. I wanted to see how it ended because it was getting so good! It kept me on the edge of my seat. I just googled the ending and got a broad idea of what happened, but I know that reading it would have been so much better!
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Tammy Conrad
3.0 out of 5 stars The writing is good and keeps you wanting to read more to find ...
Reviewed in the United States on September 23, 2017
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I have not read parts 2 and beyond. Part 1 ends abruptly in an inconvenient spot. Perhaps this is to entice you to purchase others to find out what happens, but for me, it was "so not cool" to stop where it does! The writing is good and keeps you wanting to read more to find out what happens, however... Some of the scenes do not make sense in how the events occured. Perhaps this is the point. It doesn't make sense, how this can happen to people. If you are an avid reader that 'needs' to have an ending and season ending episodes drive you mad, I would recommend to purchase all the parts prior to beginning.
6 people found this helpful
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Lonna Cottrell-Thompson
5.0 out of 5 stars How can this happen? This is how.
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2017
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This explores in depth how someone can be lured into sex trafficking. Meghan shows how her past made her a perfect target, and then she expands on the gradual progression toward a life I don't desire to imagine. Previously, I pictured only scenarios where kidnapping or a forced dependency on drugs such as heroin were employed before the first terrifying experience. Meghan’s case is different. Her first experience hit me in the middle of my abdomen and stole the air from my lungs, which it should have, and it did. This telling of this story is extremely important to not only bring awareness to the hordes of women (many of which are children) trapped in the worst nightmare, but to make it real for all of us. It's one thing to watch an episode of SVU. It’s another thing to read a first person account of a fourteen-year-old’s descent into hell.
My only criticism is that in order for the narrative to have the greatest impact, I feel that it should be told all at once and not broken into three parts.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Captivating from the start!
Reviewed in the United States on December 15, 2015
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My heart broke as I read this story. I was captivated right from the beginning and the struggles the author faced. Forced to grow up and deal with the realities of the world at far too young an age, she does the best with what life has thrown her way. I can not wait to read the next installment.
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deepak s fernandes
1.0 out of 5 stars Boring, whiney part 1 (I didn't feel like getting parts 2 or 3)
Reviewed in the United States on July 7, 2015
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This was pretty boring (part 1) -- it has the girl talking about how her mother neglected her because the mother was drunk and "hungry for love" then turns around and says "but I don't blame her". The girl's subsequent sale as a sex-slave looks like a clear case of parental neglect.

It's a story that is important to read, but it is really badly written. I didn't feel like buying the next two parts after reading the first
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Coolbritt1
2.0 out of 5 stars A bit disappointing...
Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2016
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Hard to read even the first 3 chapters. Thinking of a young girl going through so much from the get go, even before she was sold. It really is heartbreaking and undeniably a difficult thought. Her mom leaving her in another country by HERSELF at 14. Going to stay with her dad while he makes sexual innuendos to his friends about his daughter. It just makes you wonder why child protective services didn't take her away long before the trip to Greece. This rating for this book is based on how difficult it is for me to even imagine a young girl going through so much, with a mother who would allow her to even be in that situation. It's truly unimaginative.
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Kristine
5.0 out of 5 stars Heartbreaking
Reviewed in the United States on November 17, 2022
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The beginning of a very sad story. The story just began and I feel anger and grief and loss for the girl her mother and for every other person that this has happened too
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Narelo
5.0 out of 5 stars Gran historia
Reviewed in Spain on December 23, 2020
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Me encantó, fácil de entender y dura historia. Lo que pasa que es muy cortito y para leer más ya hay que comprarlo
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Krishnan
3.0 out of 5 stars Okay
Reviewed in India on December 19, 2018
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Nice
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Glen Pettifer
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy read but heart belt difficult
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 16, 2018
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1 st of all i just say as a 42 year old male it may seem weird me reading this. My reason is I love in the mind that you can't assume what a person has lived through, it's best to read or hear, if they're willing there story to keep an open mind and learn. Also I went through child abuse when I was a 14 year old child.
Ok my review: This book is such an easy read i read it over 3 days, not normal for me! Yet it's such a difficult story to read without crying and feel a need to help this girl. It's heart breaking to read.
It's written in such a way it seems as she's talking to you and if you can imagine it, sitting there listening feeling a need to hug her to let her know you care and offer yourself to protect her from those horrible sickening men who if I had the choice would be castrated.
I will try to find the rest of her story after writing this review and I applaud her for having the confidence as a strong woman to tell her story in such an open but heartbreaking way.
A brilliant but heartbreaking easy read book.
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Rose
5.0 out of 5 stars Couldn't stop reading
Reviewed in Canada on February 15, 2017
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This poor child must be traumatized for life. I find it important to read these books because being in someone else's shoes helps us get through our own trauma. Everyone has a story to tell, unfortunately, some people have gone where no one wants to go and this is a place I'm happy I didn't go!
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Cecília Mezzomo
5.0 out of 5 stars Muito bom
Reviewed in Brazil on February 20, 2016
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O livro conta um história dramática, mas que envolve o leitor de uma forma absurda. É difícil parar de ler até chegar ao final, e depois dá aquela sensação de "ah, acabou", mas ao mesmo tempo que te tira da aflição do depoimento pesado. Parece tão distante da realidade (te faz duvidar que isso exista no mundo real), mas super bem escrito e cativante. Leitura recomendadíssima.
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