Going Back For Her

Everyone thought they knew Simone. They only knew the rumors. Beautiful, intelligent, and desperate to feel loved, Simone learns far too young to confuse being wanted with being valued. As she grows from a wounded little girl into a young woman, attention becomes validation, sex becomes escape, and eventually drugs become another way to silence what she cannot bear to feel. Her search for belonging carries her through destructive relationships, addiction, crime, jail cells, homelessness, and choices that take her further and further from the woman she once dreamed of becoming. Then one day, Simone looks into a mirror and realizes she no longer recognizes the woman staring back. For the first time, she wants something more than another escape. She wants to live. Going Back for Her is a novel about the invisible wounds behind visible choices-and one woman's journey back through everything she tried to forget to reclaim the girl she left behind. "Before they judged the woman, no one asked what happened to the little girl.