brothels

"Marsden yearns to take her sister and escape Glory, a town famous for seedy businesses and suicides, but her friendship with Jude yields secrets that may chain them to the Indigo River forever"--OCLC.

Fourteen-year-old Belinda sets out with her family on a journey from Illinois to the Oregon Territory, but when tragedy befalls the family, Belinda finds herself living at a brothel in the Wyoming mountains, where she must rely on her faith in God to see her through the challenges she faces.

Daisy aspires to own her own dressmaking business while she works at a gown shop in Southampton, raising money to send her sick father to a nursing home, but when her employer learns that Daisy has taken on a second job as a barmaid in a brothel, Daisy is fired from the gown shop.

A novel in vignettes, in which Lakshmi, a thirteen-year-old girl from Nepal, is sold into prostitution in India.