Secrets of the Asylum (The Secrets Trilogy Book 1)

by Linda Hughes

Her father, a proud Ojibwa medicine man whose freedom to fulfill his life’s purpose had been strangled by white man’s strange rules and laws, had died, she believed, of simple heartbreak over the oppression of his people even though they called it a heart attack.

Instead, the battered woman had sought justice, only to be jailed up because she was a woman. Had a man complained, no doubt he would have received privileged treatment.

Men! Jenny wasn’t the only woman in here who complained she’d been committed to get out of a husband’s way so he could live as he pleased, control the children, have a mistress, or get away with all the family money. Or all of those things.

Funny, how she could see the future for others, but could hardly handle the present in her own life. The irony did not escape her.

Suddenly it struck her that the things she’d loved about Lizzie, those things she thought she’d always love, were qualities she admired because she sought them in herself. The carefree spirit, attention to nature, and acknowledgement of being different could be respected. But there were too many other qualities within that woman’s dark soul that Abby could no longer abide.