Reasons

She swore she’d never become her mother. But some legacies refuse to let go.



Sally’s childhood wasn’t a childhood at all. Cold nights in the backseat of a car. Empty cupboards. A mother who disappeared when she was needed most.



By twelve, she was the one holding the family together—barely.



Years later, Sally does the unthinkable—the one thing people say no mother should ever do.

But what if it was the only way to protect her children?



So she let them go.



Now the past is circling back. ...