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At seventeen, she thought she had found love.
What she found instead was a cage.
This is not a story about a perfect victim.
Pop Goes the Weasel follows a young woman pulled into an abusive marriage before she fully understands what is happening to her. Through motherhood, violence, devastating loss, and years of believing things might finally change, survival becomes messy-and leaving becomes more frightening than staying.
Until one day, staying becomes more frightening than leaving.
Based on true events and written as autobiographical fiction, Pop Goes the Weasel is a story about domestic abuse, generational trauma, grief, motherhood, and what it takes to survive someone you once loved.
***Excerpt from my completed novel Pop Goes the Weasel***