"Adam, a high school senior, rescues Julian, a freshman, from an abusive situation"--Publisher.

A riveting portrait of life after abuse from an award-winning novelist.
Sixteen-Year-Old Jace Witherspoon arrives at the doorstep of his estranged brother Christian with a re-landscaped face (courtesy of his father’s fist), $3.84, and a secret.
He tries to move on, going for new friends, a new school, and a new job, but all his changes can’t make him forget what he left behind—his mother, who is still trapped with his...

While learning to bestow dreams, a young dream-giver tries to save an eight-year-old boy from the effects of both his abusive past and the nightmares inflicted on him by the frightening Sinisteeds.

"When she was accepted into design school in Columbus, Kendra Troyer left behind four siblings, an abusive home, and Nate Miller, the boy she vowed to despise forever, in Walnut Creek. Years later, after rediscovering her faith in the Lord, Kendra realized it was time to go home. Now she has her own design shop, a pretty little house, and a tight-knit group of friends. But there are also unexpected visitors, dark memories, and Nate Miller, who owns...

"When trauma occurs early in life, children do not develop the capacity to regulate their experience, to calm themselves down when they're upset, to soothe themselves, to interact in appropriate ways with other people, to learn from their behavior" Margaret Blaustein, PhD. The impact of abuse and neglect on children, on their behaviors, on their sense of self, and on their capacity to form attachments with new caregivers can pose challenges for foster...

I was molested by my father when I was 12-years-old. He sedated me with marijuana. My first husband physically abused me for 15 years, and one of the beating paralyze me for two weeks. My second husband I though he loved me, but he used me for his Green Card. He later left our two kids and me. I was a victim of fraud.

16 years of alcohol is about a skinhead named Frankie; his violent childhood, alcoholism and his love for Ska.

A departure from the historical super-productions for which he was known, The struggle was an intimate drama of an American everyman who falls victim to the debilitating affliction of alcoholism. No stranger to the destructive influence of drink, Griffith pulls no punches in dramatizing its potential horrors, especially in the terrifying climax when Jimmie, tormented by delirium tremors, attacks his young daughter (Edna Hagan) in the hovel that was...

A New York Times bestseller
Unlock your heart and the rest will follow.
 
Ruby is used to taking care of herself.
 
But now that she’s living with her sister, she’s got her own room, she’s going to a good school, and her future looks bright.
 
Plus there’s the adorable boy next door.
 
Can Ruby learn to open her heart and let him in?
 
“All...

Aaron Platt has spent every day of his life breaking his back to scrape a living from the rocky, played-out fields of the Adirondack farm he inherited from his sadistic father. One winter morning, he follows footprints in the snow to his barn and discovers a man freezing to death in a horse stall. What unfolds between the two men, past and present, is a brisk, gritty depiction of crime and punishment. But their harrowing story is more than that, exposing...