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A novel by Stephanie Guerilus

Reesa Jenkins can be the balm or the blade. Choose wisely because she cuts deep when necessary. Control, whose title is lifted from the iconic Janet Jackson song, embodies its name. Theresa Marie Jenkins is a 17-year-old who thinks she knows it all. As the saying goes, a hard head makes for a soft behind. Reesa wants to be the next pop diva on the charts. For that to happen, she will have to be packaged; smile and wave as though she’s at a beauty pageant. She’ll have to give control to advisers who want her to sing on cue, tap dance on command, no throwing shoes at parties and keeping her mouth shut on the culture. But no Control formed shall ever prosper.