In his 1st book, author Tito Windham tells the unforgettable story of a young girl who grows up in a sexually, physically and mentally abusive home with her drug addicted mother and step-father. Born to a struggling single mother, Tonya is raped at the tender age of 13 by her step-father who is a strung-out on drugs. Most of her life she tries to escape the horrors that lurk with-in the walls of her home but finds herself deeply entrapped as a sex slave at the hands of her own parents. She loses all hope for a better life until she gives birth to a child that renews her will to escape. At her darkest hour she meets her unlikely knight in shining armor that lifts her from the ashes that she had been buried beneath. Filled with suspense, tragedy, romance and heroism, A Dozen Dead Rose is an unforgettable story about a dark world that so many innocent children throughout the world are trapped in and the power of fate to see us through our darkest days.