How far would you go to defend yourself... from your own mother?
Tiffany is a seventeen-year-old girl caught in a battle for existence. As she tries to claim rights to her own life and mind, her abusive mother struggles to maintain control.
Pouring her hatred for the world onto her daughter, Tiffany suffers under her mother’s guise of concern as her mother convinces everyone that Tiffany’s wounds are self-inflicted. Fighting to prove she's not mentally unstable and seeking escape from her mother’s tyranny, Tiffany must make the ultimate choice as to who lives and who dies.
But how far is she willing to go, and is redemption worth the price of her soul?
A Prisoner Within is a powerful, convincing story of manipulation, abuse and fear.
Bestselling book, high review average.
I stood there, battling with myself. The various pieces of silverware seemed weighty as I held them in my hand. My grip was so tight, as my eyes constantly darted to the sharp knives which lay inches from me in the drawer. It was a minuscule space that I could cross in a fraction of a second.
She was so small compared to me. I was young and strong. I couldn’t understand why she’d be so cruel or so hateful, especially when I could so easily overcome her. I couldn’t fathom what any child could do to make their mother despise them the way she despised me. The venom in her eyes was like a physical blow and her words stung like acid.
I had only wanted to please her; to be close to her. I worked to do things that would make her smile or laugh. All that seemed for naught. Nothing was ever good enough; I was eternally flawed. I wondered why she had kept me if I was the life-ending leech she said I was.
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