Strands of the Past: A harrowing journey of hope and despair.

Jessica was abused as a young person by almost all those closest to her; her parents, her brothers, and even the parish priest. Without hope, she tried all manners of self-harm, but with each failed attempt, looked to her eighteenth birthday as her only possible escape. Until then, she would survive, she would do what was needed to make it to the next moment, the next day, just like her sister had told her. At eighteen and through a chance encounter with a Sailor, she enlisted into the Navy...