Against all odds: April is entering into a faith-filled marriage, believing they are on the same team with the same dream. And they are, at first. No one can warn her or her husband of what darkness lurks in the depths of her husband’s mental illness.

 

He is not even aware. Trauma from his childhood was not cared for or healed. It fed the psychotic beast that lurked beneath the surface of her husband for over a decade. At age 25, it awakened, and his Mind Friends (whom he fears and loves) surfaced to control him, controlling her and the young children in the family.

 

However, they take the power of the drugs and heighten their control over him. How will she find her way out of his brilliantly interwoven drug-filled mind games and, with her five children, escape the abyss of abuse that envelopes them? 

 

Antagonist: 

Thad is driven to escape and control his Mind-friends and family situation. To cope with his painful past, he numbs out or hypes on substances which can trigger his response to what his Mind Friends tell him. Thad is trapped by them in his mind, just as a caged animal will strike out at whoever approaches the cage, abuse is the result. 

 

Protagonist:

Devoted wife to her new husband and to her marriage covenants with God, April is torn to know how to love and endure through sickness and health with her sudden spiral into substance abuse and mental illness. The emotional, spiritual, mental, and financial abuse cycles in and out over nine years and five children until she is left with 8-minutes to flee for her life! 

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