No one ever wants to become a statistic. When that statistic happens to be your own daughter, it becomes an unbearable nightmare unfolding before your very eyes.
No one ever wants to become a statistic. When that statistic happens to be your own daughter, it becomes an unbearable nightmare unfolding before your very eyes. The last thing Jo ever thought was her strong-willed daughter would become a victim of domestic violence. One day that is just what happened. Follow Jo as she takes you back to the very beginning of it all and walks you through her family’s horror as it all develops.
Excerpt
I never expected to be here sitting in a hospital waiting for my daughter to wake from a coma. If you told me she was going to become the next statistic I would have called you a liar. “Not Annabel. She is strong, and will never take shit from anyone,” I would have said. Yet here I sit in my plaid lounge pants, staring at the shell of the girl whom I love more than anything in this world, and praying to God that he doesn’t take my baby away from me.
I tried so hard to help her get away from the abuse of that man. A lot of people did. I felt so helpless, watching her go through the aggression, and calling the police or moving her back home, only for her to run back to him time after time. I tried to be supportive but always warned her that things would only get worse. It wasn’t always this way. I remember who she was before. Before her kids were born, and before him.
PI novel set in Manhattan during the 1980s when art galleries and model agencies were the two most glamorous businesses in the world. Dangerously well written.
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