One woman's candid, head-spinning struggle, to regain her self worth and dignity after years of unbelievable events stripped her of her sense of self and purpose in life. Devising ways to escape or murder her tormentor, we follow her journey from a love-struck girl to a woman who finally takes responsibiity and control over her life. She confronts the fact that it was her choices alone that defined her. She learns to love and forgive herself and her abuser and hopes that readers might find ther way ouf of darkness and deception into the light of truth and freedom.