He told me he loved me. He told me it was normal. I wanted to believe him . Emma’s grandad was kind and loving, so when she was 11 and he started abusing her, she didn't understand what was happening. H…
On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California. It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen ye…
How can Danielle understand "normal" if she has never experienced it? She was moved from town to town, kept hidden from society, and always felt like an outsider.
Her innocence was brutally taken by so…
Shelve What Big Girls Do: A true crime biography of childhood sexual abuse, survival, forgiveness, and healing
“They’d degraded me to the point where I’d become this sex thing – this thing that wasn’t human, but just an object. To the point where I believed that’s what I was.”
‘I was trapped.I’d been raped so many times, abused by hundreds, if not thousands. They could have left every door open and it would have made no difference. And I always came back –they always bro…
Shelve Please, Let Me Go: The Horrific True Story of a Girl's Life In The Hands of Sex Traffickers
In this heart-wrenching yet empowering memoir, author Barbara takes readers on a harrowing journey from the innocence of childhood to the complexities of adulthood, revealing the d…
Shelve Can I Come HOME Now?: A True Story of Childhood Trauma
One of the most harrowing child abuse memoirs you'll ever read . . .Please Save Me is a story of the sickening abuse to which a father subjected his daughter, which led to her giving birth to two chil…
Shelve Please Save Me: One Woman's Battle for Love and Hope After Horrific Abuse by Her Father (Surviving Trauma Book, Child Abuse)
'Della's story is tragic, shocking and heart-breaking, but she must be heard. Della is an inspirational and dedicated campaigner who I've been proud to support. Her book eloquently portrays her past v…
Shelve Trapped: My true story of a battle for justice after a childhood of hell
This heart-wrenching memoir from Toni Maguire tells the deeply moving story of an idyllic childhood that masked a terrible truth. Underneath her mother's gentility and her father's roguish charm lay h…
Shelve Don’t Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal
Ashley is a young single mum raising her daughter, Eden, and working hard to do the very best job she can—until, one night, she can't find a babysitter and makes the decision to leave Eden home alone …
A shocking expose of the appalling abuse and experimentation carried out on vulnerable children at Aston Hall Hospital, Derbyshire, in the 60s and 70s.
Shelve The Hospital: How I Survived the Secret Child Experiments at Aston Hall
From the bestselling author of The Perfect Child comes a short thriller about a couple faced with the terrifying return of a girl they once called their own who threatens everything they hold dear.
The room is dark, except for the streetlights coming through the blinds. I can barely see her, but I feel her. She pushes me up against the wall and we kiss harder than we ever have before. I’ve been …
Joe knew his mother was cruel and violent, but he trusted his beloved father to protect him from her. When a freak accident saw his father burn to death in front of him, Joe was left at the mercy of h…
Shelve Cry Silent Tears: The Horrific True Story of the Mute Little Boy in the Cellar
CONTAINS DISTURBING ACCOUNTS OF CHILD ABUSE AND NEGLECT. 5 out of 5 stars This is such a sad story. I can totally understand where the author ... September 20, 2017 Kindle Edition Verified Purchase I…
Shelve Cupboard Boy: Dare you Read? (The P T Saunders story #1)
Four-year-old Lisa's world turned upside down when her step-father moved in. Most of the time he was just violent but then he started making her do things to him she knew were wrong. Soon he was visit…
'My heart felt heavy with sadness for these two little girls.'Foster carer Maggie Hartley is used to all manner of children arriving on her doorstep, but nothing can prepare her for sisters Billy and …
Shelve A Sister's Shame: The true story of little girls trapped in a cycle of abuse and neglect (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
Having tragically lost her husband and son, Kayla is crippled with grief and unable to manage Jackson’s challenging behavior. Aggressive, confrontational, a…
"Monsters do exist, though many parents can't see them. I knew one called Bernie.He groomed me and led me away from home." It's been all over the news lately. Teenagers running away from home. Groomed…
‘Each time my mother laid a finger on me… it was another step into the jaws of hell. Her abuse, more so than any other, destroyed me. It was the ultimate betrayal.’
Abused from the age of eight by her …
Shelve A Family Secret: My Shocking True Story of Surviving a Childhood in Hell
An addicting and twisty debut about an apartment building devastated by the disappearance of a teenage girl–and by the secrets that won’t be kept behind each closed door–that will thrill fans of Lisa …
The shocking story of a young girl forced into prostitution by her own father, and her painful journey to escape her horrific childhood and build a new life for herself and her sons. Maria's dad was a…
