@VivianElaineBudd
Thank you for the response! I confess to making my villains hateful so getting rid of them is more satisfying ;D))
This is pretty typical of all my stories - there are no nice bad guys.
@lyttlejoe so far I'm loving it. It's a little brutal and I fear it may get worse before it gets better. But I have hope that our heroin will be a strong, tuff surviving woman!