From the day she was brought into this world she was hated.Her father hated her because she killed her mother during child birth.The other children hated her because of her hideous face and size.The teachers hated her because of her intelligence.
What happens to the mind when it is exposed to physical and mental abuse from the time you wake up until the time you go to bed?What happens when the town's people look at you as a freak of nature and whisper behind your back?What happens when the unspeakable happens to you, and you turn to your father for compassion, and you find none?
Jerrimiah Stonecastle is an American Author who was born and raised in the slums of New York. He was raised by a single mom who earned her Master's in Early Childhood Development while working as a teacher's aide. She sent young Jerrimiah to the prestigious Power Memorial Academy for Boys, the Alma mater of NBA great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He worked part-time after school to help his mom pay for his tuition.
He declined a full scholarship from Concordia University and joined the US Army and became a combat medic. He returned to New York upon his discharge where he was hired by the NYC Chief Medical Examiner's Office as a medical stenographer.
In 1982 he joined the New York City Police Department. In 1983 he was recruited by the Organized Crime Control Bureau (OCCB) as an undercover officer in their narcotics division. He finished out his career as a detective assigned to the Bronx Homicide Task Force.
When he retired in 2002, he relocated to Florida to pursue his passion for writing. After hundreds of rejection letters and reading Amanda Hocking's story, he decided to self-publish his own works. In 2018 he formed his own independent publishing company Stonecastle Publications LLC and has published 32 books so far. He has an additional 400 fiction and nonfiction novels in draft form in his company's literary vault.