As if surviving years of childhood abuse and narrowly escaping a cult and her mother’s insanity wasn’t enough, Kendra Petty ended up married to a physically and emotionally abusive woman with a hidden drug habit. She tried to make it work. She really did. Despite her success in climbing the corporate ladder, her questionable instincts caused her to stay in a toxic business environment longer than she should have. Because of her warped sense of what was acceptable, and even desirable, she ignored countless red flags. Many times she wondered, “How much more can one person take?” After almost dying, Petty finally realized that the changes she needed to make were so vast and far-reaching that they could only be achieved by exploding the life she had and deliberately creating a new one. For Petty, it began when she realized that she worked for an organized crime family — who she suspects was trying to kill her for knowing too much. Sounds impossible? Well, dear reader, you be the judge.