John Wesley Braswell

Rebecca Forest lives on the surface an enviable life. In her fifties she has been lucky to enjoy a long stable marriage. She has a grown daughter. Her husband is the pastor of a large suburban mega church and is being courted by powerful men to run for political office. In reality, her marriage is a sham. She has no slept with her husband in years. She is revolted by the political ambitions of the men she feels want to use her husband for their own ends. Her daughter is a shell of a human, just recently returned home after ragged, blurry years living with her drug dealing pimp boyfriend. Finally she is dying of an incurable debilitating disease and she has old no one. She is alone, a barren island. Norma is a young girl, barely in her teens. She had been kidnapped as a child and raised by a couple of sexual predators who've raised her with other children in a horrible parody of a family. Now they plan to kill her and film it, to sell the tape to a "collector" of perverse erotica. Now through strange and wonderful dreams they are about to meet. They are to become collaborators in Norma's escape and partners in a mutual salvation that may result in both their deaths. However it will not be entirely in vain as along as someone discovers Rebecca's notes, her death notes.