Anyone who has ever had the vile experience of being betrayed, can most certainly attest to the complete and utter devastation it causes upon their hearts, minds, and souls. The over-whelming engulfment of gloom that continues to suffocate their very existence. Especially when the one that commits this terribly harsh offense, happens to be one's parent. My book which is a fiction novel, titled "Beyond Betrayal" is approximately 55,000 words in length, is set within the heart of a young child, by the name of Lysa Mathews. A child, who from the very beginning of her young and tender life, feels the sole necessity to become her "own" mother. All of little Lysa's life lessons are taught to her in very direct, forceful and sometimes cruel ways. From the many "uncles" placed in her life by her mother, who prefers that she be called; Rachael, to the constant and desperate cries of wanting to know the identity of her father. Without warning, Lysa is sent to live with an "aunt" she barely knows. On the far too few phone conversations with Rachael, being told that she would be sent for "soon". "Soon", subsequently took four years. After a very reluctant re-union with Rachael and "Uncle" Joey; the only male figure in her life who ever made her feel like she "counted", Lysa is forced to face many unfavorable situations. The identity of her father is finally made evident to her and for the first time in her life she is at last, allowed to feel alive. Then only to experience the knowledge of his life and the sorrow of his death in the span of 48 hours. Lysa is sent a letter along with a "gift", both from her father, with a statement from him that the 'gifts" significance would be made clear to her at a later time in her life. After a brutal rape, which produces a child, a move to Grand Lillian's, her grandmother; whose lessons about life, prove to be fruitful to Lysa, and fifteen years later, the revelation of the "gift" is finally revealed, but there's a life threatening price to pay. An introduction to a brother she never thought she'd meet and finding out she has other grandparents, along with her soon to be husband, Marcus, and her beautiful daughter, Na-yah, Lysa begins to feel more alive every day. She begins planning for her double wedding with her best friend, Angela. Life is great, until the one person she thought she had successfully gotten out of her life, pops in again and with her, the usual painful, sordid, disturbing B.S. that inevitably follows her where-ever she seems to be. Her soon to be husband, laying unconscious in a hospital, her daughter kidnapped, and the "gift" from her father, hanging in the balance of it all. If all the drama isn't bad enough, Lysa is forced to deal with Rachael once more and there are no rules. She's decided that she will not be betrayed by Rachael ever again. Lysa and Rachael? NOT A GOOD COMBINATION!!!!!
