ASIN: B009BBSVGO
Publisher: L. A. Miller
Pages: 392
Riley was awakened by the sound of her mother crying. She could hear the fear in her voice and the anger in her his voice. Grabbing her bear she ran into the closet and crouched in the corner. Riley put her hands over her ears to block out the sound but she could still hear him as he hit her. Her mother was crying, she was pleading for him to stop but that only made it worse. Drawing her knees up, she pressed her hands hard against her ears. There was crying, but this time it was her crying.Riley McCarthy is twenty five years old but since her mother’s death at the age of five, she has been haunted by reoccurring nightmares of that and other nights from her childhood. Left alone with an abusive father, whose sexual desires were directed at her, she became a product of the system. Each time she ran away, she was returned to the father whose reputation was above reproach. At 16, she left ...
