By Susan R. Sloan

On Sale: Aug 25, 2004
Page Count: 480 pages
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
ISBN-13: 9780446530293

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Raised in a large, loving Irish Catholic family, Valerie O’Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When, at age 18, she meets and falls deeply in love with Jack Marsh, a dashing veteran of the Air Force, little does she know that she is about to begin a relationship that is doomed from the start.

Their many years of marriage are filled with Jack’s drunken rages followed by morning-after remorse, and scenes of escalating violence witnessed by children too terrified to speak out lest they become Jack’s next victims. A powerful story of a marriage begun with the best intentions but cursed by a legacy of violence that will have shocking consequences.