In Broken Places

Shelbys life isnt glamorous, but it is predictable--and thats the way she likes it. A survivor of her fathers violence, she has spent a lifetime creating a safe existence devoid of dependence. But her carefully managed world begins to break when, under staggering circumstances, she becomes a single mother to four-year-old Shayla. In a drastic attempt to escape her childhoods influence, Shelby moves to Germany, but she quickly discovers how intimately linked memory and healing are--and how honestly she must scrutinize her past in order to aspire to a richer future. As she juggles a new job, a new culture, a new daughter, and the attention of an enterprising man, Shelbys fresh start becomes a quest for the courage to be not only a survivor, but someone who prevails.