ter, I, Ava Hayes, agreed to marry Etha
l illness silen
iage; it was a p
agement to another, introducing me as his
physical and emotional abuse, worsened by my secre
sometimes tender, a secret lifeline that broke
conspired in my mother's murder and abandoned
ith my last hope gon
mother's death, then cruelly forced an abo
ished, my m
horrifying truth of my death and