"His fingertips began apologizing, grazing over my cheeks. He closed his eyes and stepped toward me until our bodies touched. He kept walking toward me until we were both against the wall. He then buried his face in my blouse as he began to weep. 'I'm so sorry,' he whimpered. 'Do you understand me? I'm so, so sorry.' He held my face in his hands. My heart pounded. My chest hurt. How could I go? But how could I possibly stay?" When Kendall Berkely takes a look in the mirror, she not only desperately wants to run away from the stranger staring back at her, she also knows that her days are numbered. She can feel it in her bones, and has the bruises to prove it. To make matters worse, Kendall will soon discover that her seventeen year old daughter, Diamond is on a path nearly just as dangerous. After the demise of the family unit she once knew, a distracted mother, and being forced to accept a new stepfather, Diamond finds herself knee deep in a multitude of mistakes. When Diamond finds herself more lonely than ever before, she crosses paths with Bobby Lidell, a teacher’s aide with a dark side .. But what is lurking in the shadows will not stop until a vow has been kept; what is lurking just beneath the surface will come seeking revenge.

1. Spencer shrugged his shoulders as he backed out of our tight parking spot alongside the curb, and drove us
home. He stopped in front of the garage, and sat quietly.
“Something wrong with your garage opener?” I asked peering over at him. Why were we sitting in front of our
house? Something deep down in my bones said run as I reached above our heads for the garage opener.
Out of the corner of my eye, I caught a glimpse of his hand and flinched, but by then it was too late. He shoved
my arm away from the garage opener and punched me so hard in the side of my head, that my face hit the
passenger window. I only sat doubled over. The car was completely quiet as he stared over at me and waited
menacingly. Whatever he was waiting for, he would not get from me. I refused to look at him or speak.
I decided that any human being would stop there, if I stayed crouched down and quiet. I was wrong; his fist
connected with my ear. I gasped and let out the strangest sounding moan I had ever heard as I held onto the
latch on the door. The world around me was quiet, and everything I looked at reminded me of a television
screen with static; blurred figures and unclear sounds. I held my left ear with one hand and pulled at the latch
on the door with the other.
Before I could open the door Spencer grabbed both of my hands and pulled me close to him, “Clubs? Drinking?
Lies?” he growled. He threw me back over to the passenger side of the car, raised his fist again, and began
punching me repeatedly in my left ear. I instinctively covered my ear with both of my hands. I screamed over his
shouting that I could not hear him over the ringing sound. I could only hear my heartbeat.
The longer I sat unable to make out what he was screaming at me, the more hysterical I became. But I managed
to sit perfectly still as I crouched over. What if I was deaf? What if the ringing and swishing sounds never
stopped?
I opened the door and fell onto our driveway. I felt so dazed, but I had to run. Wherever I ran would be better
than going inside of the house. As I pulled myself up using the car door, I could hear his loafers scratching at
the pavement as he edged closer.
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2. Synopsis:
"His fingertips began apologizing, grazing over my cheeks. He closed his eyes and stepped toward me
until our bodies touched. He kept walking toward me until we were both against the wall. He then
buried his face in my blouse as he began to weep. 'I'm so sorry,' he whimpered. 'Do you understand me?
I'm so, so sorry.' He held my face in his hands. My heart pounded. My chest hurt. How could I go? But
how could I possibly stay?"
When Kendall Berkely takes a look in the mirror, she not only desperately wants to run away from the
stranger staring back at her, she also knows that her days are numbered. She can feel it in her bones, and
has the bruises to prove it. To make matters worse, Kendall will soon discover that her seventeen year
old daughter, Diamond is on a path nearly just as dangerous.
After the demise of the family unit she once knew, a distracted mother, and being forced to accept a new
stepfather, Diamond finds herself knee deep in a multitude of mistakes. When Diamond finds herself
more lonely than ever before, she crosses paths with Bobby Lidell, a teacher’s aide with a dark side ..
But what is lurking in the shadows will not stop until a vow has been kept; what is lurking just beneath
the surface will come seeking revenge.