Kirjahaku

The little girl has become a woman despite all the odds. She didn't speak for five years after witnessing the horrific drowning of her mother. After suffering years of mental, physical, sexual and psychological abuse she is free from what's gone before. She wants to live her life... but will the past let her. The remarkable true story of one woman's fight to overcome an horrific past, a story so controversial that she's had to change every name in the book... including her own.

It is the middle of the nineteenth century and Anne Rose is an independent young woman who is intent on leaving a loveless engagement behind and becoming a surgeon in England. After she purchases a ticket on a steamship to Cairo under a false name, she lies to several passengers and tells them she is heading to Egypt to join her father. But then moments later, she fibs again and tells other passengers she is meeting her professor husband. Richard Lawrence has been traveling to Cairo for the past decade to deliver expedition groups to Cairo as part of his job at a British museum. After he is introduced to Anne on the ship, he is immediately drawn to her, but suspicious of her conflicting stories about her life. As the two-week voyage begins and an unexpected medical event brings them together, their chemistry heightens when Anne reveals the real reasons why she is traveling to Cairo. Will their burgeoning feelings for each other be enough to survive their challenges and propel her down a path toward her dream? In this historical novel, a young woman with a big dream of becoming a surgeon in nineteenth century England must reconcile with her past as her path crosses with a handsome suitor.

A former teen mom reveals secret confessions of parenting struggles and hardships. While many are afraid to speak their actual thoughts on what parenting really is; this book shares uncomfortable truths in hopes of helping other moms who have shared the same experiences, and to prevent young ladies with promising futures from having to experience the hardship of parenthood too soon.