by Hannah Brown
First published 2014
Hannah Brown and her family live believing they know the people closest to them. Then the careful facade crumbles. What emerges is a pattern of abuse so calculated and betrayal so complete that it shatters everything they thought they understood about trust and safety. As the family grapples with the scope of the deception, they must find a way forward through the wreckage. Brown chronicles their path from devastation toward recovery, showing how faith becomes their anchor when everything else gives way. The family's struggle reveals both the depths of human cruelty and the possibility of restoration. This account strips away comfortable assumptions about evil and healing, offering instead an unvarnished look at one family's fight to rebuild after betrayal.
Genres: abuse, non-fiction, biography-memoir, family-drama, christian-living
Vibes: dark, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, unreliable-narrator
190 pages · Paperback · CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Content warnings: abuse, domestic-violence, emotional-abuse