The author leaves a marriage after seven years of abuse. She takes her two children with her. Yet her attempts to flee from her husband continue. The author finds work with the National Park Service as a search-and-rescue tracker. This book is her memoir of her fight for independence from an abusive husband and what she learned from her job.

This author's tale of domestic abuse is horrific, but she does not go into details which doesn't lessen the horror. She writes a lot about tracking, probably a little too much, but tracking helped her to deal with the pain of an abusive husband who gets custody of the children because she was the one who "deserted" an abusive husband. The events that took place in this book occurred in the 1980s and 1990s. Hopefully, things have changed for abused wives in the U.S. today.

This book has been donated to the nonfiction vbb organized by booklady331.

This book is available again.

This book has been placed in the Little Free Library.