Water Rate Challenge

by Raphael Harlan

Overview

In a Flint suburb of Grand Blanc, Michigan, Michelle used to teach at an elementary school for a few years before she suffered three massive injuries in a car accident. Michelle had broken ribs, knees, and back.
The accident left her unable to teach, so she dug deeper in financial trouble. Michelle and her husband Sean used nearly $100,000 worth of credit to pay for her surgery and medical costs. Michelle had broken ribs, knees, and back.

With Sean working in the nuclear plant industry, the couple attempted to pay off their debts by living their lives frugally, reusing water for washing laundry and bathing, reusing bags, and using cash and debit cards in place of credit. After 15 years, the couple was closer to completely wiping out their debt worth $190,000. Then, a turning mishap in the sewer changed not only their journey, but their water costs.

Join Michelle and Sean in their adventure full of a mixture of mysteries, suspense, and courage.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940148616917
Publisher:	Raphael T. Harlan
Publication date:	09/05/2013
Series:	Breaking Debt , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	77 KB

About the Author

Raphael Tirrell Harlan was born on November 23, 1991 in Detroit, Michigan. He grew up with a speech impediment and ADHD, and he also grew up with a biological mother who was addicted to cocaine. He was fostered at six years old and adopted at nine years old. He was a survivor when he was raped at 12 years of age. Throughout his childhood and teenage years, he would attend five schools in elementary, middle, and high school levels, and at 18 years of age, he graduated from Mumford High in Detroit in June 2010.

Raphael, nicknamed Ralph by his family members and some of his friends, wrote a poem that was published in an elementary school's poetry book that he attended. He also was a former editor-in-chief for Mumford's JROTC newspaper when he was in tenth grade. In October 2012, he published his first two books, "The Woman of Greatness and Inspiration: A Tribute to My Mom" and "Unlimited No Contract Cell Phone Companies vs. Unlimited Contract Cell Phone Companies."

Currently, when he's not writing, he edits and proofreads people's e-book manuscripts. He also attends the University of Michigan-Flint, where he's studying graphic design. He hopes to expand his editing business to making e-book covers. He also does landscaping as a business in spring and summer in the Flint Metro area. He can be found living in the Flint Metro area and contacted on Facebook, his email at , his editing business email at , and on his website, www.raphaeltharlanbooks.weebly.com.