Beneath My Smile: Searching for Love, Peace and Happiness

By recalling memories and feelings from her childhood, Beneath My Smile introduces the reader to a large, varied cast of individuals who come and go in Anna Bella's life--some leaving, some staying, but all leaving their footprint nonetheless. Heart-wrenching accounts of the tumultuous breakdown of her parents' marriage, being kidnapped by one parent in order to punish and control the other, her father and stepmother's abuse and neglect, sexual abuse at the hands of those who should have be...