Shadows in the Darkness

A Memoir of Survival and the Truth I Almost Didn't Tell

von Tonya G

98 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Before you turn the page, I need you to understand something about this book.This is not a story about a little girl who was saved. It's not a story about a hero who arrived in time, or a system that worked the way it was supposed to, or a family that finally did the right thing. If you're looking for that book, you should put this one down.This is a story about a little girl who survived anyway.I was four years old when I first understood that the world was not safe. I was four years old when I first learned to hold my breath, to keep watch, to read the silence in a room like other children read picture books. I was four years old when the ghost first appeared at the window above the kitchen sink-pale, still, pressed to the far side of the glass-and I have never once, in all the years since, been fully free of him.What you're about to read is the truth of what happened after that. The foster homes and the group homes. The men who hurt me and the system that failed me. The daughters I lost and the son I found. The addiction that nearly killed me and the recovery that saved me. The ghost who followed me through all of it, whispering in the dark, never blinking.I have spent most of my life being told that my story was too much. Too dark. Too messy. Too complicated for anyone to want to hear. I have spent most of my life being told-by caseworkers, by family, by the voice in my own head-that I was the problem, that I was the thing that needed to be fixed, that if I had just been quieter, better, less, none of this would have happened to me.This book is my answer to that voice.It is not a tidy story. It doesn't end with everything resolved, everyone healed, all the doors closed and all the wounds scarred over. It ends where I actually am-still standing, still trying, still capable of hurting the people I love most and still capable of showing up the next day and trying again anyway.But it is an honest story. And after everything this life has put me through, honesty is the only thing I know how to write.So if you're still here-if you're still reading-then welcome. You're about to meet the girl who ran through the dark. You're about to meet the woman who survived. You're about to meet Tonya and Lena and the ghost and everyone else who lives inside these pages.Take your time. There's no rush. The story isn't going anywhere.I'm not going anywhere either. Not anymore.

• Reihe: Independently published
• ISBN: 9798174277236
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 19.09.2026
• Größe: 229 x 152 mm
• Verlag: Independently published