The Cruelty

The Cruelty is a novel I could read in one sitting if I had the luxury of time. It delved deeply into the human psyche, nature vs nurture, generational curses, intergenerational trauma. But above all, the undying resilience buried deep within us we are surprised that we have.

Cassa Bassa, Editor, Unhoused: Yearning for Home, Author, Flicker of Thoughts.

The Cruelty is an understatement. I don’t think I’ve ever read something as emotionally stressful, yet incredibly engulfing and enveloping as The Cruelty. As her debut novel, Candice Louisa Daquin unleashes an undeniably sound writing style incorporating gore with poetically flowing imagery that managed to keep me glued to the storyline–afraid to look away, but also having to take a few breaks to be able to fully digest the content.

What both Camila and Julia endured surpasses True Crime and Unsolved Mystery episodes. And to come out on top and in love, with hopes of a flourishing future?! That is the Chef’s kiss I didn’t see coming. I applaud Daquin for taking a chance on this novel and sharing its intense content. The bite of it is sharp and long-standing, and the characters are layered; feeling like family or the creepy neighbors of which one steers clear. The way the novel ends signals there could be a sequel? I am eager to see if that will come to fruition. After taking a deep dive into a book that is so creatively woven to hit several genres of writing, I now wonder, what can top this?

Tremaine Loadholt, Author, Séduire.

Candice Daquin strings together lyrical, haunting, important prose following the life of an abused woman – Camila – told with care, exquisite detail, and the real weight of the cycles of abuse many women and girls have face throughout history to the present day. I found healing in the book from the experiences Camila goes through, as I’m sure many women will and can relate to. Social justice is so important, and the rights women are denied alongside sexual abuse and intimate partner violence is a tattered, torn threat The Cruelty seeks to explore. Candice handles the blade of the narrative and dark topics touched exquisitely, cutting into the deep fiber of Camila’s soul.

Allie Garboczi, Author, On the Road to Galway & The White Hart.

This is not an easy book to read, but it is an important one. The physical and psychological abuses the characters endure are violent, graphic, and unrelenting and—as the author tells us—based on true events. The struggle for survival propels both the reader and characters forward. This is a book filled with insight, empathy, persistence, courage, and–eventually–hope.

Marjorie Maddox, Professor, Multiple-Award-Winning Author of Seeing Things & Begin With A Question.

It’s rare that I give a book top rating that I found so painful to read, but my reason is simple: the readers that this novel is dedicated to—the survivors of sexual abuse and trafficking—needed this book in the world. Favorable comparisons to The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo are natural, but even though I admire the late Stieg Larsson for his feminism and his motivations for writing the books in that series, the fact remains that we still need a woman to write a character like Camila, and few could do it better than Daquin has.

I admit that crime is not a genre I seek out, and I wouldn’t have read it at all if not for the fact that I’m interested in any story this author is driven to tell. The theme I found most compelling was that the Devil is real, but if cruelty has made him, it’s self-hatred and hopelessness that keep him alive. If the Devil exists, so does his undoing, and that power is not in the hands of God. I’ll let the author say it for me: “…the endurance of human beings, despite atrocities, is a real thing. Our ability to exist beyond trauma. It’s something you can’t even describe; it may not make perfect sense. But the heart and soul wills itself to be heard, even when broken. It is the urge to life. To live!”

Sun Hesper Jansen, Author, Fairy of Disenchantment & To Tune the Beast.

The Cruelty is a fierce psychological thriller that tears open the reality of surviving abuse. Camila isn’t just running -she’s reclaiming her power. The novel delves into manipulation, memory, trauma, and the razor-thin line between victimhood and vengeance. Daquin’s storytelling is taut, unsettling, and unflinchingly honest. Even safety becomes an illusion. This is a chilling, necessary read about the cost of escape – and the courage to fight back.
I loved the way the author has written the book – it makes you read in one go.

Neelam Chandra, Multiple-Award-Winning-Author, Lines of Fate & In the Flickering of an Eye.

This novel is an amazing piece of literature. On the surface it’s a psychological thriller. Very suspenseful and will keep you on edge as you root for the protagonist. But under the surface, this unique work dives deeply into the psychology behind abuse and how many innocent people fall victim to cruel manipulation and the tortured lives they find themselves in. I cannot say enough about how masterfully the author depicts the events which ultimately give the novel its title. Brava!

Eric Syrdal, Author, Pantheon.

Poets are like comedians who translate into incredible actors. They’re able to evoke the world in a palpable way and reflect it back to us with some kind of magic attached. Daquin’s novel isn’t an easy read, she’s taken the gloves off like her promo says, and ensured this unapologetic novel isn’t considered ‘safe’ when addressing the necessary subjects of rape and survivorship. It stands as an excellent psychological thriller in the vein of Girl With The Dragon Tattoo but it’s so much more, it’s an expose of the system, and a story of avenging a great cruelty. I was absolutely hooked from the first pages of this book and I finished it in two days which is pretty intense for a 450 pager. I did this because once it grabbed you, this novel doesn’t let you go, you just have to know what’s going to happen to Camila and Joe. This is easily the best thriller I have read – maybe ever – definitely in recent memory. An outstanding achievement, I can’t recommend it more highly. Daquin’s the real deal and this is an exquisite masterpiece.

Didi Artier, Writer, Unhoused: Yearning for Home & Smitten: This Is What Love Looks Like.

The Cruelty begins in well-crafted cinematic style with the attempted suicide of the protagonist, Camila, who leaps off a bridge at night and plummets into the murky river below only to awaken—albeit drugged, in another world controlled by her mysterious rescuer, Rafael. Launching the plot with a deep dive reveals the brilliance of Daquin’s tale as an acute psychological portrait of shock and the tenuous reclamation of sovereignty many survivors of childhood sexual abuse, partner/marital terror, rape and confinement have experienced.

However harrowing the story can be, at times, its readers can appreciate Camila as a complex heroine who slowly comes to understand exactly who her rescuer is and what crimes Rafael is capable of committing in his quest to destroy and remake her as a conquered possession. For anyone having been involved intimately with a narcissist and/or sociopath (not uncommon these days as over half of partner relationships are initiated online where backgrounds are often complete fabrications), the journey Camila traverses as she unravels Rafael’s deceptions and shadowy past littered with previous victims, rings unflinchingly true.

Rebecca Huston, Screenwriter.

In the spirit of I Spit On Your Grave and Revenge, this is a graphic tale of the abuse and torture of a woman (mentally, emotionally and physically) who is forced to fight back with all that she has just to survive. The Cruelty is a rape-revenge thriller horror novel, but it’s one that, without a doubt keeps you on your toes. It’s very hard to surprise me, like very hard, and there were some plot turns in this that made me actually shouting out loud, “what the fu**!” a couple times. It’s raw, its painful, it’s someone peeling back the skin and poking at an exposed nerve. I would never say this was a fun or even easy read, but it’s an emotional read.

So many films and novels that go into that genre treat the revenge part as a cure, a purging of pain and rage that will make everything that has been inflicted on the character not okay, but easier to handle. The Cruelty doesn’t do this; the focus is on her pain more than anything else, acknowledging that this pain will never go away completely. Nothing will cure it completely or remove it. It’s a perfectly named novel too because there is no point in her suffering other than cruelty. Her prose feels like poetry as sections follow a stream of consciousness format taking us into the main character Camilla’s mind so that we can see and feel her mental state that often feels like an unbalanced fever.

Rachel Roth, Author, The Undead Redhead & The Girl in the Mall.

This debut novel is a revelation. A complex marriage of elegance and dark beauty. Daquin’s level of psychological and emotional acumen is staggering. Not since John Fowles some 60 years ago has anyone addressed the issue of sexual and emotional enslavement anywhere close to this depth. The dichotomy between the gorgeous lyrical writing, its stylistic brilliance, and the savage and brutal subject matter has never been done before. One cannot enter this world she has created of mind-numbing depravity, tenderness, and lilting beauty; without exiting as a changed person. A monumental achievement.

Joseph William Vass, Author & Poet.

There’s a place, often more than one, in a tale of suspense, of danger, of dark forces, the reader can get stuck between, “I’m afraid to know what happens next.” and “I must know what happens next.”. There were multiple of those for me reading this book, and times I did need to take a break from that intensity. In that moment, the characters are so real to you and their fates as important to you as real people you know that what happens next truly matters. This is that sort of book. Daquin is that sort of writer.

There are twists, surprises, realities turned upside down and inside out and destroyed, and nightmares come alive. There are memories erased, replaced, and restored. Obsessions drive actions of stalking, grooming, and capturing. Yes, there is abuse; mental, emotional, physical, and sexual, and it is looked at with a poet’s sensibility of just enough detail, not away from because such does happen in our real world to many and can only be fought if it is acknowledged. The villains, the abusers are rendered no less real and complex than the victims and survivors. Would you recognize them if you passed them on the street? You might, there are real ones out there for whom cruelty is the point and the pleasure, even a necessity, and they are hunting. And if you think you can guess the end, go ahead and try. without And, if perchance you are a survivor of abuse, remember, this book is dedicated to you.

Robert Wertzler, Author, The Comment Poems.

I just finished this novel. It’s fantastic. It held me and I was engaged the whole time. The Cruelty is an extremely well-written, tour de force novel packed with visceral images that truly draw the reader’s attention in. Like a spider, Daquin’s incredible visuals, take hold of the reader and don’t let go. Daquin’s use of the objective correlative serves as a great vehicle to move the plot forward and understand the characters’ motivations very well, but most importantly, their vulnerability–which is one of the most significant aspects of any piece of literature.
Camila is a woman who has gone through much tragedy but remains resilient. In an era such as ours where women are oppressed in every region of the world, The Cruelty stands as a testament to the unnamed women of the world whose voices and lives are silenced by the very laws that are supposed to free them. Camila has the power and determination to influence any person to “walk the line” of their lives in order to live the life they believe they’re made for.

Melissa Fadul, Professor & Author, Pulse.

I’m an avid reader but I have never read a book quite like this, and it left a lasting impression. It’s part thriller, part reckoning, and very relevant to what’s going on with the Epstein files right now. I know that the author wrote this novel through lived experience (working in a women’s center), and you can feel how real it is–it’s looking at what happens in the underbelly of society and realizing how privileged you actually are versus the reality of sex trafficking victims. It’s not gratuitous–it’s both hard to look at and hard to look away–but always purposeful and fiercely compassionate. More than once, I caught myself flipping ahead just to be sure the characters made it; I needed their safety like I needed air. This story is horrifying in the ways truth can be, yet it holds a steady flame of hope—of survival, reclamation, and the stubborn tenderness that refuses to die. It challenged me, changed me, and left me more awake to the world than before. I’ve read thrillers and I’ve read horror, but this is something different—elevated, urgent, and real. I couldn’t put it down, and when I did, I carried it with me. What a rare, necessary book.

Georgia Park, Author, Softly Glowing Exit Signs.

Taut and brutal, The Cruelty takes the reader on a dark, twisting ride of profound abuse, trauma, and victimization. Will it all end in triumph or tragedy? Author Candice Daquin leaves the reader guessing until the final possible moment. This book plumbs the depths of the human psyche — both in its power to wreak pain and horror and its power to endure and survive. Don’t mistake this book for “torture porn.” It is not that. While yes, there are graphic depictions of sexual violence, the reader is neither intended to flinch away in horror nor consume with a lascivious hunger. Instead, the reader is intended to question why our protagonist is made to suffer so and how she manages to continue through the worst conditions imaginable. What in her spirit sets her apart…and is that enduring spark what drew the darkness to her in the first place? This book has much to say about power and gender and sexuality and exploitation and violence and love and connection. Read for those messages rather than for the carnage, which is the bloody, gripping vehicle for the rest.

Mary Jo Richards, Professor, Advocate, Photographer.

One of the most stunning debut novels I have ever read. Frightening acute psychological deep dive–literally from PAGE ONE. Daquin’s profound literary prowess renders the protagonist Camile’s journey of how one survives one’s own death on multiple levels, including the release of all prior identity, with heart-breaking risk. Broken, lost and erased from all ties to her former life, Camile learns how to put the shredded pieces of herself back together again to save her son and the one other person committed to her re-emergence into a life worth living. For anyone navigating the process of healing from multiple abuses, Camile’s ferocious sanity-saving determination is a victory to remember. Bottom line: Unforgettable story.

Mavis Hall. Reader.

Terrifying. As a survivor and a woman, I found The Cruelty so scary because it reads like it really happened and it also focuses very well on how women feel. It’s well written and poetic at times but the violence is also really visual and the writer doesn’t hold back because the story is about surviving not presenting an easy-to-read story of violence. It’s the most feminist book I have read in ages and whilst I wouldn’t read it again straight away because it’s really challenging to enter Camilla’s world and witness how she breaks out; it’s a book I think everyone should be reading.

Shabouri Oblikwe, Reader.

A true gritty thriller with plenty of twists. Just as you think you have it under control, wham it hits you with another blow! I couldn’t put this book down. Gripping does not do this book justice.

Joanne Smith, Reader.

The Cruelty is one of the most disturbing books I’ve ever read. I say this as a compliment. It’s not a book you’d fondly recall, it’s a book you need to read and recommend. Many people have experienced a bit of what Camila goes through or knows someone who has. The #metoo movement cannot be forgotten and our cancel culture often pushes sexual-assault-reform to the back burner. Novels like The Cruelty are social justice warriors speaking out. Truth can be in fiction as much as testimony and as I read Camila’s story I read the story of many women. Cultural acceptance of violence has to end and awareness is one way it will. I couldn’t put this book down; it literally gave me chills. I was so impressed with Daquin’s handling of an extremely hot-topic and whilst she didn’t hold back, neither did her protagonist. It’s that courage that will eventually bring change. If you have a daughter, ensure she reads The Cruelty before she goes to college.

Susi Bocks, Editor & Author, Feeling Human and Every Day I Pause.

Daquin’s debut novel The Cruelty, is outstanding in its perception of human-nature and the writers’ innate awareness of the depravity of certain human behavior. This taut psychological thriller will keep you guessing and guessing, it’s got the addictive quality of a best-seller, with the finesse of a writer who knows how to capture and keep her audience. This is a crucial book in our war against intimate violence and a brilliant read.

Megha Sood, Poet and Literary Activist. author of the award-winning collection, My Body Lives Like a Threat.

Candice Daquin’s writing provides an exquisite blend of the delicate and powerful, of profound emotion established in simplicity, of eloquence and terror and wisdom born of experience and self-examination.

Robert Okaji, Author of Our Loveliest Bruises & Scarecrow Sees.

Daquin’s persona doesn’t hold a high moral ground like a martyr; she also shares her vulnerability and imperfections; Resilience always comes to her with wounds. Her voice is well-formed, and her observation adds an overlooked fact or image that enhances the reader’s understanding of the world. She brings her entire being into her writing.

Shweta Rao Garg, Poet & visual artist, author, Of Goddesses and Women, Shakespearewalis: Verses on the Bard and the graphic novel The Tales from Campus: A Misguide to College.

As a man, I found The Cruelty, a sobering read; evidencing the hideous reality of male-on-female-violence. Whilst disturbing; the novel didn’t seek to blame all men, but rather, a society that spawns monsters of any gender. This equality in handling such a tricky subject, is hard to successfully wrangle, but Daquin’s writing is stunning, in its precision and comprehension of human nature. This isn’t a book that blames men, it’s a book about survival, for all survivors.

Eric Syrdal, Author, Pantheon.

An incomparable writer, well before her time. Her writing is magnetic and pulled me in from start to finish. The words found in these pages will live on in one’s mind for years to come; they have lasting power.

Tremaine L. Loadholt, Author & Editor, A New Kind of Down and Séduire.

Perhaps the life left over in her is just enough to escape the hellish void, where she’s been stripped of everything but her breath. Or is it? She wonders… as the world turns into another contorted mind trap in a devilish time-loop of endless agony.

We think those kinds of scenarios belong only to fiction, but they are the bread on which we rub our butter. Well-worn stories of manipulation…. Why do we find them so fascinating? Because the sickness we as humans are capable of, astounds our sensibilities. We tell gruesome horror tales as part warning to our children, part wisdom. Don’t be stupid… learn from others’ mistakes…

This tale portrays the horror a man can become, but, with every word, it etches…

The anger of a woman who knows she is worth more than being a thing of man.

Nitya Swaruba, Copy-Editor and Author, Curiosity Saves the Thinker.

Fans of psychological thrillers will relish this unpredictable, shocking and original novel The Cruelty. As a therapist I found it incredibly useful and insightful to shed light on the legacy of abuse. Daquin helps us understand and get to the core of abuse through generations. Her strong female protagonist is a sign broken people can recover and thrive. As a therapist to survivors, this book is one I would recommend to my clients and their families. It will trigger, it’s not an easy read – but neither is what they’ve gone through. More of us should be aware of the extent of abuse and sexual violence; the toll it takes and the fight survivors go through. 1 in 3 women is the victim of some kind of violence in the homeplace. On a purely psychological thriller basis, this novel is exceptionally exciting but it’s so much more than that, it’s self-aware.

Jodi Roberts, Licensed Professional Counselor.

If you are disturbed by the things humans are capable of, The Cruelty doesn’t pull any punches, but this isn’t a horror novel, if you turn on the news you will see similar examples every day. Women are still the #1 victim of domestic and sexual abuse. Previous abuse sets anyone up for future abuse. Until we understand this legacy, we cannot find ways to curb it. The Cruelty does a really thorough job of exploring this challenging subject with deep insights. As much as this is a work of fiction, there are many strands of lived truth, readers will be disquieted by. We need these kinds of books to cut a pathway through old tropes. The Cruelty is a fantastically exciting novel where you hold your breath hoping the protagonist will survive against literally all the odds. The unexpected twists and psychological depths are fascinating, terrifying and ultimately redemptive.

Dr. Belinda Román, Professor, Committee Member with International Federation for Feminist Economics.

As a big fan of psychological fiction written from the stance of a woman, I found The Cruelty an intelligent, feminist expose of modern culture. With a fascinating female lead, I was on the edge of my seat cheering her on, through the brutality of her experience, she grows in front of our eyes and fights back in ways unimaginable. I didn’t see the ending coming, I don’t think anyone can. Finally! A great book that has a finely crafted ending. Bravo! There is absolutely nothing disappointing about this riveting thriller.

Elizabeth Green, Psychotherapist. Trauma Therapist.

The Cruelty kept me on tender-hooks. Its ability to pierce the inner-lives of survivors of domestic and sexual abuse, so viscerally, alongside an incredibly beautiful writing style, is riveting and wholly original. What Daquin’s managed to do with her fiercely feminist debut novel is nothing short of outstanding. As a voice for her generation and for women, she’s accurately nailed the reality behind sexual violence and given us an unforgettable story of survival, that’s ultimately both redemptive and hopeful. Watch this author, she’s the real deal.

Rebecca Huston, Screenwriter & Author, Prytain, and Legenderie.

Having worked with survivors I expected this to be a hard read, but what surprised me was how engrossing and compelling it was. Despite its challenging theme, this psychological thriller is a book you’ll read in a few sittings and recommend to all your friends. Daquin’s style of writing is lyrical, clever and provocative, in its examination of what humans are really capable of. I love psychological thrillers but it’s hard to find one that accomplishes everything in a single book. This is exactly what The Cruelty has achieved. I can usually guess endings, but I challenge anyone to. Gripping, thrilling, informative. Everything you want. This is already my favorite book of 2025.

Didi Artier, Writer, SMITTEN and Defy Definitions.

This book is one I think all survivors of abuse would benefit from reading; because at its heart it is a story of overcoming impossible odds and finding yourself. The characters are really believable, their suffering compels you to root for them as they fight to turn the tide that’s crashing down around them. I was swept away by her beautiful writing set against such a savage storyline; underscoring the importance of this subject for us all.

Chuck Smith, Licensed Professional Counselor.

The issues of identity and origins, the seeming reality of flesh and fabric… ultimately leaving nothing but subatomic particles neither from here nor from there, yet rooted, rooted deeply, in loss.

Donna Snyder, Author & Director of the Tumblewords Project, El Paso, TX.

A suspenseful and fascinating exploration of character; this engrossing debut is packed with realistic psychological insights, tautly plotted and focusing on the central question; how far can cruelty go? Nothing about Daquin’s debut novel feels done before, this is unpredictable, shocking and page-burningly addictive.

Dr. Joaquin Farrokhzad, Editor.

The enigma of how far Camile will go, keeps readers hooked until the very end. Daquin’s pulse-quickening debut, is self-assured and preternaturally intelligent. It’s a highly compelling read, brilliantly constructed and recommended to anyone who appreciates strong female leads.

Iris Nnoseng, Writer.

At times, the author speaks to women, at times to men, sometimes to both. What conjures in our brain while we jostle between dream and reality is a tiny, sometimes unrealized space, wherein folks attempt an exploration of their assumptions and beliefs and draw conclusions on big and small existentialist issues. A master wordsmith, Daquin seems to be moving along with her words, creating a magic spell that is set in motion with the very first lines.

Dr. Anita Nahal, Author of What’s wrong with us Kali women? and Drenched Thoughts.

Daquin has elevated our expectations with her debut novel, expanding beyond entertainment to something breathing, meaningful and socially conscious. Her poignant clever writing is a like a painting that becomes more intriguing the longer you study it. This is an essential social statement with its gloves off.

Georgia Park, Author of Softly Glowing Exit Signs and Quit Your Job & Become A Poet (Out Of Spite!).

When you read Daquin, you will be swept along by the sheer power of her words, and you will return to reread for the connection you felt to those words whether you have similar experiences or not, for she reaches into our experiences, pulling them from us and holding them up for us to examine in the light. Thus, Daquin leads us to vicariously experience what she writes of here with her visceral use of language. Finally, one may return to her work here, reading again, for the simple appreciation of how masterful a writer Daquin is, to convey such powerful raw, honest emotion yet craft such unique figurative language.

Annette Kalandros, Author of The Gift of Mercy.

The first time I read Daquin, I thought of Lorca. Her writing possesses “duende” with a feminist edge. Brutal histories etched in cold acid glide alongside captures of love, urgent and often fleeting, and social commentaries fast and tight as the flick of a switchblade.

Sun Hesper Jansen, Author of, To Tune the Beast and Fairy of Disenchantment.

I admit it, I’m a fan of Candice Louisa Daquin’s writing, I’ve been following her work for several years. As different as our life experiences seem to be, I find that her writing goes deep to the places where the personal and universal meet, and I just “get” her.

Robert. G. Wertzler, Retired Mental Health Worker, Author of, The Comment Poems.

Daquin has a special understanding of and connection with the disenfranchised, the abused, the castaways of society. Quite possibly her extensive work in Psychotherapy honed her laser focus on what lies beneath the surface of things; the surface of people, the surface of behavior.

Linda Paul, Author of, My Life With an Enigma: Unscrambling the paradoxes of an iron-willed romantic.

Daquin’s writing is brave, honest, raw, intense, and at times even disquieting in her willingness to tell it like it is and discuss subjects some might find distasteful. But that having been said, know that what she writes about, are often pieces of her personal reality, and to read Candice is to know Candice, not in part, but in all that she is and has been. Her writing is neither trite nor inconsequential. She is capable of telling stories that are charming as well as ones that are troubling but need to exist.

Clayton Terrell, Actor. Social Activist.

Daquin is that rare commodity, a person who writes what she wishes, how she wishes. Her work is all the more refreshing because of it. Her writing grips you by the throat and does not let go; delivered with brutal honesty and unerring quality.

Richard M. Ankers, Author, Britannia Unleashed and The Eternals series.

The Sylvia Plath of our times. Candice Daquin will be highly noted one day as one of our best contemporary writers.

Kimberly J. Steiner, Trauma Therapist, The Daniel Counseling Center, VA.

Candice is a master of layered meaning, nuanced emotions and vivid imagery.

Stephan C. Anstey, Author, Learning To Do Without.

Incredible read, highly recommended. This book just pours with depth and talent.

Alysia Hutton, Writer, Capital News Service, Virginia Commonwealth University’s Robertson School of Media and Culture.

The feminist, female, queer and BIPOC voice of Candice Daquin is breaking boundaries and insisting it be heard. Hers is the voice we need as women, as women of color, as queer angry females who demand unflinching, real role-models in modern literature.

Hera J. Hernandez, Educator. & Social Activist.

Daquin’s insight into why humans are capable of doing great harm to each other, and her visceral character’s epic battle to free herself from this legacy of abuse, is outstandingly wrought. I couldn’t stop thinking about this novel as I read it, I wanted to give up everything and just finish it. My heart was beating so fast, imagining what would ultimately happen. I didn’t predict the ending, I don’t think anyone could. This is the finest writing I’ve consumed in years, what an outstandingly excellent debut novel.

Dr. Alba Villarreal Norte, Artist, Writer, Feminist.

“Where is the rule book for abuse?” Oof. This is such an incredible story. The tension, suspense, brutality, twists, turns, emotions. Wow.

D.L. White, Author, Meticulous, Peekaboo, Mermaid and Girl on a Swing.