Traitor Within: How her Fear of Abandonment Led her to Abandon Herself

On a dark stretch of highway, Cassandra Kurtz is left alone — terrified, abandoned. But this is not the beginning of her story. It is her pattern.

The cycle of manipulative and abusive relationships begins when Cassie is just fifteen, on a date with a college guy she barely knows. As the adopted daughter of a state senator and an emotionally cold mother, she is already battling a feeling of not belonging when she falls for Al, four years her senior. Her journey leads her to meet her birth mo...