About

365 Days of Darkness will be my first publication and it's all so surreal. Writing a book was never in my long term career goals. As a matter of fact, English Comp in college was challenging for me. Thankfully I had some very patient and understanding English Professors. 

Growing up in the in Pacific Northwest, specifically in the Seattle-Tacoma area, my ideal retirement plan has always ideally been around the idea of opening a business. Like all business owners, we hope to be successful and hope to retire, passing the business down to children, siblings, etc. I had it all planned out, or so I thought. 

A dear friend of mine had decided to take the plunge and move away. Now, she wasn't just moving from Washington to Oregon, she was moving across the county- to Oklahoma!! She talked about it growing up, so it wasn't too surprising when I got the call she felt the time was right. She booked a one way flight to Tulsa, Oklahoma packed a couple suitcases, and a week later she flew to Oklahoma. She had some distant cousins who lived outside of the Tulsa area, so that's where she started. Now this was at the exact same time The President of the United States called for a State of Emergency due to the COVID-19 outbreak. 

The next couple of years was life changing for everyone in the world. Globally, businesses shut down, production and manufacturing came to a screaming halt. It was scary time for me especially. Washington State experienced the worst of the virus. The death tolls were numbers unheard of for a single state to experience. The State of Washington quickly went into lock down. We were told to stay home. Not to go outside of our homes, as health officials hadn't much information on this deadly virus. This of course caused a ripple affect within my personal agenda and my career path. Needless to say, I had a lot of time on my hands.

Her and I kept in contact. Here and there. Months had passed and she was happy. Loving her new life in Oklahoma. I was happy for her!! We continued to keep in communication until things took a turn... for the worst. Our communication became scarce. It would be weeks, sometimes months before I heard from her. I would see from time to time something on social media she posted or shared, but the phsyciall communication was scarce. 

I had learned she met a guy. At first, they had a bit of a bumpy beginning as he was torn between his wife (they'd been separated for sometime)  and his now new girlfriend. Again, months would pass before I would hear anything from my friend, and when I did finally hear from her, she would be talking so fast, trying to tell me every detail that I couldn't actually fathom the things she had been telling me. The things that the boyfriend was doing. To her..phsicaly. Emotionally. She never had to actually say the words out loud because I was no fool - he was abusing her. The abuse worsened as time passed. She tried to leave him, multiple times, and... it never worked in her favor. The communication ended all together for nearly two years. No one had heard much, if anything at all from her. All I could do was pray! I knew she was a strong willed woman, so I knew eventually she would find her way far away from him!!

When the time came and she reached out, we spent hours on the phone. Hours upon hours on the phone. I still, can't fathom.. it's physically hard for me to wrap my head around all the events that took place those couple years. The events, the trauma, the lack of help was something I had never heard of in real life. The trauma, the things she had to go through over the past few years is not of real life- its only things you seen in the movies. Or a Hallmark show. The things she has gone through personally - physically, emotionally, financially is...Well, I can honestly say, there just aren't any words that can actually describe the terrifying events she has experienced.

And so... it all began to be written. From the beginning she has emphasized that this novel, this story of her journey is not for sympathy. It is not to be written or told with the hopes of any sort of financial gain. Her only goal, and now my only goal, with the release of 365 Days of Darkness is to tell the story as it happened, without any sugar coating, with the hopes that the story will help someone else. That another individual will read the story, and see the red flags early on and have a quicker opportunity to flee from a potential abusive partner. That's all she's in it for, to help another get out or get away before it's too late.  Because for my dear friend, she nearly didn't make it out alive.... 

With that being said, at this time I won't be disclosing her name or personal details as I know she's not completely out of harms way. I ask the same of my readers and fans - if you have the knowledge of who I've written about, please keep her personal details confidential, until she says otherwise. 

Thank you all for your support!! If you have any questions, or comments, or suggestions for either myself or my dear friend please reach out. I would love to hear some input and I know she would as well. We both can be reached by using the form provided under "Contact" section of the website. 

Again, thank you for your support. Without ya'll her and I couldn't have made any of this possible!!! 

 

Thank you & God Bless