About Bending the Bars:
Anne knows she cannot leave Kyle. Believes he is the first person to never lie to her. Never will leave, once her son is born. Escaping is fraught with danger. No contact orders mean nothing to abusers. Survivors of domestic abuse know they will be tracked. And often murdered.
She has been conditioned to believe abuse is normal. Trained to believe fear, hiding, and secrets are routine for everyone.
Law prevents mothers with children from escaping, unless she abandons her children to the abuser, to keep another generation under the thumb of abuse.
Jo and Lennie won’t give up trying to find Anne. To rescue her. To bring her to safety with Ruby’s Law, inadequate as it is. In legal limbo land, safe from her abuser, surrounded by other survivors. Few make it out to live beyond the bars. It simply isn’t safe. Abusers wait out there. Often barely beyond the fence.
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Author Bio:
Abagail Brown has lived, and continues to live, with the subject matter in her fiction and non-fiction. An abusive past, multiple disabilities, gluten intolerance, and self-publishing are subjects she knows about from the inside out. She lives now in a supportive environment with a loving husband and furfriends. With the aid of cats, dogs, and art, she reaches out to help others stumble less along the path to a future for all, regardless of their past, present, or future.
Survivor Fiction Acknowledgements
Survival is difficult. Although no one wants to survive the tales that are shared within, many have. Women, children, and even the occasional man has met with violence they neither deserved, and rarely escaped. These tales give hope, for survivors to escape. Connections to others like them, many of whom did escape.
A tremendous thank you to all who offer help that often you never see the results of. Years later, even decades later, those you help, will remember the assistance you gave.
May this novel assist others on their search for hope and acceptance in world often not designed for them.