What Diane Never Saw

Some storms are born, not made.

Cara grew up invisible - erased from photo albums, silenced by fear, and failed by every adult who should have protected her. Raised under the shadow of her mother Diane's alcoholism and cruelty, she learned early that survival meant disappearing.

But disappearing has a cost.

From childhood abuse to teenage numbness, from an unplanned pregnancy to the slow unravelling of everything she thought she knew - Cara's story is not one of easy redemption. It is raw, unfiltered, and unflinching. It is the story of a woman who was handed nothing but broken pieces, and had to figure out, one painful day at a time, how to build something whole.
Because hurricanes don't just destroy.

Sometimes, they clear the way