The Woman Who Rised from the Ashes

Claire Hayes spent three years enduring mistreatment at the hands of her husband Derek Caine, a compulsive gambler, and his domineering mother. Her marriage has become a cage of humiliation and fear, and she is treated as though her worth were something to be traded away. The story follows her struggle to survive the betrayal of the family that was supposed to protect her, while she begins to plot her way back from the ashes.