anita dawes

You read about families where everyone is happy and life is wonderful. That wasn't my family. My mother coped patiently with a drunken, obsessive gambler of a husband and a daughter with an insatiable sexual appetite. I loved my father, but he kept us one step away from the poor house. Loving my sister was harder, basically because she hated me and constantly brought trouble to the door. Me? I...

SIMPLE'S LIFE is a painful nightmare. A huge bear of a man, but with the heart and mind of an innocent child, he suffers terrible abuse from his vicious and uncaring backwoods family. Together with his half-sister Leanne, they are hunted like wild animals and suffer the terror of nearly being burned alive as they try to escape. SHADES OF THE WALTON'S MEET DELIVERANCE!

A car loses control and mows her down in the street, changing her life forever. She finds herself lost in another world, forced to witness the bitter truth of her old life. She rescues an abused and terrified child, determined to take her home But how can she, if she has to stay in this nightmare world?

An unseen presence threatens Maggie's young son, Danny… What does it want and where did it come from?

SOMEONE HAUNTS Sarah's dreams, someone who looks just like her. Her name is Kelly and her life is a nightmare. Are these dreams a message for Sarah's future, or a glimpse of Kelly's past? Or are they both trapped in a world that isn't their own?

Annie's life in Virginia at the turn of the century was perfect until she discovers a nasty family secret. Something her parents have been doing for years. Now she knows, she cannot continue to live like this, but her protests fall on deaf ears. How can she hope to change what has become a way of life for her family? Her struggle to change everything only makes her life so much worse, forcing...