Survive and Live

For twenty-five years, author Adrianna KD lived a double life. Around friends and family, she was happy-happy with her marriage, her few friends, her increasing isolation from her family. Even in her own home, Adrianna had to wear her carefully crafted mask. If she didn't, it could've cost her life, or the life of someone she loved. Yet behind her happy façade was the teenage girl who still believed she could show her man how to care for her, how to love her.

Eighteen years later, Adrianna shares her story in Survive and Live. Told as a series of vignettes, this memoir illuminates the complexities of intimate partner abuse. From her teenage years of being groomed by an older man to her adult years enduring his abuse, Adrianna doesn't shy away from what happened. After decades of believing she was never enough, of being made to feel less than, she's found her voice and embraces it here in this powerful work. In unravelling her abuser's deceits, she hopes other victims may recognize their own abusers' patterns-and free themselves.

Candid and thought-provoking, Survive and Live crosses time, continents, and cultures. It's one woman's unimaginable journey of resilience in the face of trauma.