Torn From the Inside Out: 2014 Special Edition (The Torn Trilogy)

torn From the Inside Out 2014 Special Edition
Domestic Violence Literary Narrative Memoir

Given away to her aged and wise Uncle Robert and Aunt Molly at age 3 ½, Sara spent ten years on the ‘flower bed of Eden’ being lavished with love and attention until death took its toll and Sara married an abusive man named Thomas Niles when she was only 16. Niles invites us to enter into her lifelong odyssey by the words: 'Let the journey begin', and so it does as the reader enters into a formerly forbidden zone.

The story of Sara Niles is more than a story of one woman's journey into pain, it resounds with the voices of the many veterans of domestic war. Torn From the Inside Out celebrates a power greater than death itself, the power of the human spirit under fire.

“To tell a tale so great as to tear the soul inside out"

― Sara Niles, Torn From The Inside Out

Excerpt

“Thunder rattled the window- panes two stories high, and lightning split the sky, it was as if the whole world was in turmoil that night. My nerves were keyed up as tight as piano strings, and in a sudden moment of stillness and silence, it felt as though my heartbeat was amplified ten times over. He was over a hundred pounds greater than I, and nearly a foot taller than I, and I knew he could move his muscled body into unbelievable sprints. Rain started falling in torrents as the storm raged outside. I was not afraid of the storms of nature; it was the storm inside this night that I knew I might not survive”

February 13th, 1987, the night of Sara Niles’ disappeared with her five small children.

CONTENTS
Part I Living of the 'Flower Bed of Eden'
Chapter 1 The Garden of Eden
Chapter 2 Golden Memories
Chapter 3 The Age of Innocence
Chapter 4 Upheaval
Chapter 5 The Suitor
Chapter 6 The Wedding
Part II Descent Into the Abyss of Hell
Chapter 7 Storm Brewing
Chapter 8 Foreboding
Chapter 9 Into the Lair
Chapter 10 Bonding
Chapter 11 Shattered Dreams
Chapter 12 Meanderings of a Lost Mind
Chapter 13 Into the Fire
Chapter 14 Gain and Loss
Chapter 15 Baby Thomas
Chapter 16 Evolution
Chapter 17 Touchstones
Chapter 18 Para Normal
Chapter 19 Paranoia
Chapter 20 Yellow Roses
Chapter 21 Enter Arial
Part III The Butterfly Borrows Eagle Wings
Chapter 22 Building Resentment
Chapter 23 The Fight
Chapter 24 The Gambler
Chapter 25 Full-Fledged Chaos
Chapter 26 Post Trauma Distress
Chapter 27 The Breaking Point
Chapter 28 The Milestone
Chapter 29 The Power Struggle
Chapter 30 The Awakening
Chapter 31 The Cold War
Chapter 32 Imminent Danger
Chapter 33 Retrospection
Part IV: Era of Enlightenment
Chapter 34 The Crucible
Chapter 35 The Flight
Chapter 36 Reconnoiter