Linda Chapman's life story is one of a fruitless search for love in her own family ... a family where abuse, t love, became her 'rmal'. Given away at birth by her mother, Linda lived a perfect life with grand-parents who showered her with affection. Then suddenly, at the age of five, she was kidnapped by her own mother and thrown into a world of physical and mental abuse that followed her through much of her adult life. This book has changed my life .... I look at families in a different way, realizing full-well that the idyllic childhood I had is t the same as many children lead. Unfortunately, there are too many Lindas in the world, many of them living next door or just down the street from us. -Donna Bailey, Artist