When Kathy is six years old, her father rapes and abuses her for the first time. Many thoughts and emotions run through Kathy's head as her father brutalizes her well into her teen years. Yet Kathy is paralyzed with fear and never speaks of the mistreatment.

In Passages of Betrayal, her thoughts are laid onto the pages as Kathy wishes she could have spoken them over fifty years ago: "At twelve years old, I am aware of an emptiness inside of me, of the loneliness that surrounds me, of the confusion that engulfs me." Kathy's only hope of surviving the hell she lives in is to...