STOLEN HALO is a moving and engrossing memoir-about childhood physical, sexual and emotional abuse; about rejection and abandonment-that provides a perspective that only a person who was that child can know. STOLEN HALO is a true testament to the importance and the process of facing one's past head-on, resurrecting that past, owning and respecting it, putting it into written words-and then sharing one's own story with the universe in the hope that those words will somehow help others make sense of their own lives just as writing them made sense to the author. For Trish Dinsmoor, in STOLEN HALO, it isn't just a matter of honesty-it is a matter of responsibility-to get her message of hope out to all the victims of abuse. STOLEN HALO-and its poignant message of hope and survival-is Trish Dinsmoor's attempt to set herself and other victims free.