Leaving the Dark House describes the survival of an abusive childhood with alcoholic, mentally ill parents only to discover that an even worse nightmare lie ahead - growing up to become just like them. Sometimes heartbreaking, but also darkly humorous, this tale shows that with grit and determination, your past is not necessarily an indicator of your future. This is the story of a broken family made up of shattered people. The brokenness had been ongoing for generations, each one successively crushing their children with abuse, domestic violence and the subsequent trauma. The odds of someone...

In a book written by women for women, Street Smart Safety for Women offers tips on defensive living that will increase readers' reliance on the one thing that can protect them most: their safety intuition.