Domestic Life

You Can Love God and Still Get a Divorce And get this, God will still love you. Really. Are you in a destructive marriage? One of emotional, physical, or verbal abuse? Infidelity? Neglect? If yes, you know you need to escape, but you’re probably worried about going against God’s will. I have good news for you. You might need to divorce to save your life and sanity. And God is right beside you. In The Life-Saving Divorce You’ll Learn:- How to know if you should stay or if you should go. - The four key Bible verses that support divorce for infidelity, neglect, and physical and/or ...

Evan Stark, founder of one of America's first battered women's shelters, shows how "domestic violence" is neither primarily domestic nor necessarily violent, but a pattern of controlling behaviors more akin to terrorism and hostage-taking. Drawing on court records, interviews, and FBI statistics, Stark details coercive strategies that men use to deny women their very personhood, from "beeper games" to food logs to micromanaging dress, speech, sexual activity, and work.

Now in its third edition, It's My Life Now is a guide for survivors who have left an abusive relationship. It addresses - in clear, non-threatening language - various issues associated with abuse and violence, including post-relationship emotions, psychological impact, dealing with children, personal safety, legal problems, and financial security. Each chapter dismantles common myths about being in and leaving an abusive relationship and contains activities for self-exploration that survivors can complete as they navigate a new life free from abuse.

A yearning to be free... Katherine was just nineteen when she met Basil Duckworth. He was charismatic, worldly, and impossible to resist as he spoke of freedom, adventure, and a life lived beyond the ordinary. With no hesitation, young and somewhat naive Katherine left everything behind and ran off with Basil, believing she had found the man of her dreams. For a while, it felt like the right choice. As they travelled from place to place chasing Basil's musical career, there were nights filled with laughter, stolen kisses under starlit skies, and promises whispered like prayers. But slowly, ...

Ernt Allbright, a former POW, comes home from the Vietnam war a changed and volatile man. When he loses yet another job, he makes an impulsive decision: He will move his family north, to Alaska, where they will live off the grid in America’s last true frontier.

She was a successful attorney who prosecuted domestic abusers for a living. Then she fell in love with one. Shelley Lynne Levisay was an accomplished prosecutor, a respected attorney, and the valedictorian of her class. From the outside, she had it all. But inside, a lifetime of feeling overlooked and a deep-seated desire for love left her vulnerable. When she met Matthew—a handsome, decorated Air Force veteran with a tragic story—she thought her prayers had finally been answered. He was charming, attentive, and made her feel like the center of the universe. But the whirlwind romance ...

Alyson Tinsdale is giving her son the childhood she never had: a stable family, loving home, and a great school in a safe neighborhood. When they move into the home of her dreams in one of Denver's most sought-after developments, Alyson works hard to fit in and impress the other mothers. Bonnie Sloan is the neighborhood matriarch. With her oldest son headed to Yale, and her youngest starting kindergarten, Bonnie is now pursuing her own long-held political aspirations. But it's her middle child, Elijah, and their private family struggles, that cast a shadow over her plans.

Millie has just served a long sentence for a murder she didn’t commit. It’s her identical twin sister Eve who was the killer...and the person who framed her. Millie is willing to forgive Eve and hopes they can still be loving sisters. But when she is released, instead of welcoming her, Eve coldly rejects her. Now Millie only wants one thing: revenge.

A Soul-stirring Memoir Born Out of Haunting Childhood The story unfolds as the family travels across the entire Western United States. It leads you through the daily struggles and survival of four little girls who faced unimaginable horrors. Tales of being homeless, squatting in old abandoned shakes, as well as moving from one mining camp to another, gives you a picture of their lives. For 53 years beginning when Marjorie was 18 this gripping narrative has remained hidden and serves as a testament of unyielding courage driven by a divine calling. The book begins with her mother’s written ...

Everything is falling apart in psychologist Tig Monahan's life. Her mother's dementia is wearing her out, her boyfriend takes off for Hawaii without her, and her sister inexplicably disappears, leaving her newborn behind. When a therapy session goes horribly wrong, Tig finds herself unemployed and part of the sandwich generation trying to take care of everyone and failing miserably. Just when she thinks she can redefine herself on the radio as an arbiter of fairness, she discovers a family secret that nobody saw coming.

'One for Elin Hilderbrand fans.' CLOSER Gripping beach fiction from the USA Today bestselling author of NANTUCKET SUMMER & more. In a place built on appearances, what happens when the truth washes ashore? Eva is ready for a new beginning. After a difficult year for their family, her husband’s prestigious new job offers the perfect escape: a summer in Nantucket Shores, an exclusive beachside enclave where company families spend golden months in shingled cottages by the sea. With island breezes, barefoot barbecues, and children playing under endless skies, it feels like a dream come true. ...

When high school sweethearts Karen and Richard Sharpe married, they shared an interest in medicine, a desire for family, and a dream for the future. For Karen, that dream became a nightmare. After years of abuse at the hands of her physician husband, she put an end to their 26-year marriage. Fearing a crushing divorce settlement, Richard ended the marriage first by unloading a .22-caliber rifle into Karen's chest. The murder revealed more about the millionaire doctor - and his double life - than polite Boston society was prepared for.

When a simple mix-up leaves their father Joe’s estate to Eden, their long-absent mother, Clare and Aaron decide it’s finally time to track Eden down. But it’s been over thirty years since she left their remote outback mining town, and they’ve never heard from her again. Aaron is dealing with a new marriage that’s currently trapped in immigration limbo, and his teenage daughter Cady is clearly going through a personal crisis of her own.

Deliciously escapist summer fiction set in beautiful Nantucket, from the USA Today bestselling author of the hit Reese Witherspoon romcom adaptation, Something From Tiffany's. 'Hill doesn’t disappoint.’ CLOSER Three women check in to La Cucina di Nantucket, a renowned island cooking retreat which serves up more than just Italian cuisine. Grace hopes the break will help her come to terms with the fact that she may never be a mum. For Christine, the trip is a birthday gift from her children. With the family gone and nobody left to fuss over, she hopes to rediscover some of her zest for ...

There are good moms and bad moms - and then there are hot-mess moms. Introducing Ashley Keller, career girl turned stay-at-home mom who's trying to navigate the world of Pinterest-perfect, Facebook-fantastic, and Instagram-impressive mommies but failing miserably.

The dating pool was trash... Sharla was not looking when she came across his profile... He was everything! Fine... Built... Swag... The look of a savage in a good savage kind of way. A bad boy with all the markers. What could go wrong? She swiped right. He responded. They met. And he blew her mind! Knight was everybody's dream guy. His tall perfect frame, kissable lips and eyes that hypnotized had done Sharla in. But... What started off as something wonderful, started to show cracks. The layers peeled back. And what she saw was devastating! What happened? Find out! Read along in this ...

Blythe Connor is determined that she will be the warm, comforting mother to her new baby Violet that she herself never had. But in the thick of motherhood's exhausting early days, Blythe becomes convinced that something is wrong with her daughter - she doesn't behave like most children do. Or is it all in Blythe's head? Her husband, Fox, says she's imagining things. The more Fox dismisses her fears, the more Blythe begins to question her own sanity, and the more we begin to question what Blythe is telling us about her life as well.

It's 1950 in rural Minnesota, USA. America is still largely an agrarian society, and most families are farm families. Men are HOH's who keep their farms and their families running smoothly with strong discipline. But farm girls, as well as their mothers, often crave something a little livelier than the day to day boredom of the farm and reach out, now and then, for some fun that runs against the social mores of the times, as well as the family's hard and fast rules.

In August 2015, Limerick man Jason Corbett was murdered by his wife, Molly Martens, and her father, ex-FBI agent Tom Martens, in the bedroom of their luxury North Carolina home. He had been savagely beaten to death with a baseball bat and brick while his children slept nearby. For his sister, Tracey Corbett-Lynch, and the rest of his family in Ireland, it was just the beginning of the nightmare that would involve a custody battle, an online hate campaign, and, ultimately, the gripping trial that would lead to her conviction.

On one of those magically white winter nights, my mother took me in her arms and shut the doors behind her. We left my drunken father in the name of a better life. And the name of that better life was Tom, a local gangster with the face of the devil himself. I remember looking at my mother's bloody face bashed into the ground, teeth scattered around her limp body. I understood then that one of us was going to die. Fortunately, I was right!