This is the first book in a trilogy which tells the story of a young South African woman who is abused both physically and mentally through two marriages and the threat of losing her children in a court of law. The story begins with her first encounter with sexual abuse as a child in coercion into a marriage to a man that she does not love. The abuses in this union are described in detail, and the readers are provided with a chilling portrait of male brutality and innocence betrayed, and also of a family's protracted denial. Damaged both emotionally and physically and standing at the very...