Affliction

Celeste Gerard can't remember a life outside of foster care. Thrown into care like soiled goods at the tender age of 12 she's lost all sense of family and love. Her only hope is to go home. Home to the family she lost. But home isn't what her mind has made it into.

Home has become nothing short of a fantasy and the reality is much more painful.

Home doesn't include the blameless perfect mother she thinks it does. It doesn't include a loving father. All of the things she's desperately held onto, friends, family, aren't what they seem.

That perfect dream is an illusion and Celeste isn't prepared to face reality.

A reality that's ugly. A reality that's cruel. One that will test the limits of her strength and the very calibre of women she is.

Everything is about to be taken from her and with nothing to fight for where does an already broken find the will to live?

Celeste had thought she'd seen the worst the world had to offer until hell came knocking at her door.

No one ever said life would be easy and Celeste is about to discover just how hot hell burns and how much fight it really takes to come out alive.