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Two years after their marriage, Jim Culback wasn't the man Clare thought he was. How many more broken promises could she accept? After packing and moving everything they owned from Ohio to Naples, Florida, she actually thought their marriage would improve. But as time went by, she couldn't take the beatings, lies, or cheating any longer. But could her husband be capable of homicide? Is Jim responsible for the murders of two women?

When someone leaves an abusive marriage, life isn't instantly fixed. Women who have experienced domestic violence feel shattered. Because of the trauma they've been through, a bond with their abuser has formed that keeps them tied together long after they've physically left. Karen DeArmond Gardner understands these difficulties all too well. And she intimately knows what women in this situation need in order to gain freedom from the lies of abuse - to be reborn as the people God longs for them to be.

The therapist informed me that I was like an anorexic in that an anorexic doesn’t recognize hunger and has to be told when to eat. I didn’t recognize disrespect and had to be clued in to when it was going on in a form too subtle for me to recognize or too bold for me to believe it was what it was. After experiencing one molestation and two sexual assaults in my youth, I went on to enter into three consecutive abusive relationships as an adult. And then...I had a nervous breakdown.