"One Woman's Search for the Cause of the Violence that Tore Apart a Family and Destroyed a Marriage" This book is more than just another story about abuse. It is one woman's search to discover the root of the disease that attacked her family. A search that took her into her husband's past and beyond to his family's past. A search that took her into her own past looking for the reasons that put a young girl on the path into such a situation. It is the story of her growth, her determination and her will to survive, to go on in hope of a better life.