After The Rain

By TAMMY J ESTEP

When a fourteen-year-old girl becomes smitten with a high school handsome jock from a powerful family, she was certain he'd make her dreams come true. Only her fairytale quickly turns into a nightmare.After a few innocent months of dating, they become series quickly. Youth and innocence led her on a journey taking her from her family and her own reality, to West Palm Beach Florida. On the run for three months, leaving her parents sick with worry, she comes back married at fifteen, and soon after, gets pregnant. She was ashamed, confused by his mood swings, yet madly in love, she does what she needs to day just to survive. Controlled, abused verbally and mentally, sometimes choked to the point of passing out, the bruises were deeper than the marks on her neck.After three years of being locked in her own home because of jealousy and utter control, she finally had the nerve to leave him.The wealthy enabler parents, continue to placate and protect their precious family image. Wealth and power pour into the justice system where strings were pulled to look the other way to Jackie's temper and rumbles with the law Putting Tammy in position of no real support from her in-laws, so she moved in with her own mother. There, Tammy finds som solace in mothering her beautiful until he kidnaps the child leaving her fearing for the worst.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1677429534
• ISBN13: 9781677429530
• Release Date: January 2020
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 38 Pages
• Weight: 0.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"