I was married to a crack cocain addict for a few devastating years in my life. It was a deplorable way to live. After much abuse I began visualising myself killing him. Worse still, I began getting off on the thought. That is when I knew I had stepped right up to the edge of insanity. Thank God he went to prison or that delusion would have become a reality.

For the first time in my life I knew what it was like to have no control over my emotions. It took a very long time after he left for me to regain confidence in myself and my emotions. I didn't feel as though anyone could reach out and help me. I was so humiliated and so very devastated, not so much at what happened, but at myself for allowing it to happen. During the three year peroiod that it took to recover from living the horrors with an addict I began realising that many others might have, or would go through the same feelings as I did under the same circumstances. So I decided to write a book. It was a hard write as I relived much of that life over and over again in writing. All that is except the murder that it starts with.

Writing this book was how I held onto my sanity, my hopes for this book are to help others who have, or are going through what I went through. To let them know that they are not alone. Addiction is something that is prevalent. Hearing about it is one thing, but living with it is a horror unimaginable to most.

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