16-year-old Cathy was a wild child from a broken home who just wanted someone to love and care for her. When she met Peter Tobin, she thought she had found the man of her dreams: a perfect gentleman twice her age who offered her the adult life she'd been yearning for. But by the time she discovered the horrible secret truth about her new husband, it was too late. For years, Cathy witnessed and endured Peter's unspeakable violence. How would she keep herself and her son alive long enough to escape one of the most evil men in modern history?