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Co-written by the writer of Sunday Times bestsellers The Asylum, The Convent, Silent Sisters and Abandoned, this is the harrowing emotional story of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a father.

A new edition of the 1988 classic text that exposed the extreme prevalence of rape in America, coining the term "acquaintance rape" and establishing the disturbing statistics on sexual assault that still hold just as true today - now featuring an original preface from Gloria Steinem, a new introduction by Salamishah Tillet, an updated afterword by Mary P. Koss, PhD, as well as an updated resources section.

Making ends meet while working in a strip club is not the only challenge. It’s a daily struggle - you work wacky hours, deal with cattiness or drama from other dancers, and you don’t make nearly enough money to cover for all the compromises you’re making. You also need to find room in your life for friends, family, and romance. But all of that feels elusive when your career comes with shame, suppression, exploitation, and abuse.

Letters from a Better Me is a transformational guide igniting the powerful woman inside us that we’ve suppressed for too long. Discover how holding onto anger, fear, hate, and separation traps us in an ongoing cycle of destruction. Now is our time to become the best versions of ourselves and have a lasting effect on the world. The journey starts with taking a trip into our own darkness. We take off our blinders and see how these attacks on our womanhood affect us on deep levels. Once we are aware, we accept what is and heal from the past.

When Susan's father reached out to her from prison, she wasn't sure if she wanted to play his game or not. Susan's father had physically and sexually brutalized her and many other victims, and even though she never blamed herself she thought she just might get some closure with the correspondence from her father. The journey of these letters is proof that all the answers any of us are searching for are inside of us all along. Through these letters Susan did find the closure and peace she had been searching for her entire life.

What people saw on the outside and what it was really like behind closed doors were totally different. This book is a continuation of letters for part two in the Love Letter On Purpose series and will take on a different tone than Kelly’s first book, Love Letters from an Ex-Wife, as she directly addresses narcissistic emotional abuse.

None of us were raised by perfect mothers, nor can we ourselves be perfect parents. But some mothers sure do know how to ruin a life—well, almost. I say almost because, although my mother's parenting left severe damage in its path and, regrettably, and inevitably, shaped some of the decisions I made, I am grateful to have realized the issues I was facing. So, I now have the opportunity to properly address those issues to minimize their impact on my life.

For more than two years, Donna Freitas’s graduate school mentor, a priest and celebrated scholar, stalked her, forever changing her life. In her 2019 account Consent: A Memoir of Unwanted Attention, she recreated, in novelistic detail, the story of being traumatized by her professor’s obsession with her, of how he used his power to try to rob her of her own.