A Hard Leaving (Concord Collection)

How do you rebuild your life after living with an emotional batterer for twenty-two years? The scars are invisible but just as painful and enduring as the scars left from physical abuse. And you have no legal protection from emotional abuse. Even a restraining order requires at least the threat of physical violence.

This is the story of Jilly, an emotionally battered wife, Shelia, the friend who helps save her, and Steve, the attorney who falls in love with her. But how do establish a loving relationship with someone who has lived in terror for the last twenty years?

A Hard Leaving is part of the Concord Collection, a group of stories set in Concord, Massachusetts.