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True love, lost love - excruciating memories of a mother's mistake. Michelle Vanderbrique was determined to escape her tormented childhood, the lies, deceit and despair. Failing to suppress her mother's words imprinted on the canvas of her heart, Michelle struggles to find her identity. Unjustly imprisoned and ridiculed as a child in a cell called prejudice. But not from just any racism in the deep south. Her judge and prosecutor lived in her home - his title (stepfather) was the one to sentence her for the color of her skin.Michelle found that she missed the main ingredient, which denied her the pleasure of enjoying her fruit. The missing ingredient (love) was something that she not only craved, but starved, something that she had heard about but had never seen or touched. Then Stanford walked in her life and knocked at the door of her heart. Against the advice of her best friend Tabby (mafia princess), Michelle opened the door and invited him in. No one knew that this ex-cop and his son Eric would share her dreams. Michelle reached out to love Eric as much as humanly possible although he was not her own. An undeniable pact, an unspoken bond forged between a mother and her stepson vowing to protect one another at all costs. Discovering firsthand that a mother's genuine love knows no boundaries real or implied. Soon the invitation to accept Stanford's love would become a nightmare as he threatened to leave her and take his son with him. Hospitalized and on the border of death, Michelle reached out harder to save Eric, while Stanford is accused of attempted murder. Michelle fought against friendship to save Stanford from the hands that promised to vindicate her. Her love for Eric she bowed down to the demands of Stanford's obsessive ex-girlfriend, Beatrice, driven by the mind of a killer and the heart of a wounded woman convinced her sister (Sonia) to assist in a scheme to get rid of Michelle. Eric was more then a stepson - he was the missing ingredient. The ke