Includes a bonus chapter and a Q&A with the author at the end of the story!

Josefina: My story isn’t sweet or easy to hear. It’s the truth. A brutal truth anyone you know could be living through right now. I’m the person people talk about, asking, “Why does she stay?”
My story will tell you why. It will tell you how it starts, where it leads. When does it end or will it ever?

This is a different side of love, a darker, and deadly side that isn’t always discussed. People think it can’t be love, that it starts with pain.

Trust me, it starts with love. A love that hurts.


Ridge: Because if love doesn’t hurt, it can’t be real.



*This book contains strong language, violence, and graphic descriptions of domestic abuse. Please read with caution.
Only for readers 18 years and up.