num_pages: 304
description: The national bestselling author of Blues from Down Deep and When Twilight Comes delivers a moving and powerful story one that Robert Fleming says is the one we've been waiting for...her best work to date. At age seventeen Coreen Holmes was an honor student and the recipient of a full college scholarship when she became victim of a vicious date rape. Fearing her father's wrath Coreen is sent to a relative's house--with her mother's consent--until she's able to delivery the baby. A cruel woman Coreen's aunt emotionally and physically abuses her; relieved when the baby is born so she can finally leave her aunt's home Coreen gives the baby up for adoption and in her haste knows nothing about the child--even its own gender. Thirty years later as an adult Coreen Holmes Treadwll is married and the mother to two stepsons; now head of a social welfare agency and an expert on the welfare of women and girls she is distressed at the prospect of appearing a friendly witness before a senate investigating committee. Fearful that her past will be exposed--something her family knows nothing about--Coreen must deal with her past head on before it's too late.
language: English
title: If You Walked In My Shoes
publisher: Kensington