Her marriage to retired Navy admiral John Perry seemed almost
too good to be true. Because it was?
At the start of
her relationship with the intelligent and worldly John Perry, Barbara
Bentley couldn?t believe her luck?so when things didn?t add up, she
struggled to ignore her doubts. She kept trying to put the pieces
together?unaware that some of them were simply missing. Even as he
drained her credit, dodged her questions, manipulated her and misled
her, she stayed with him, suppressing her growing suspicions. Ultimately
he would try to kill her, proving himself not a protector and provider,
but a predator.
This is Barbara?s courageous, compelling
story, in her own words?of the slow, choking darkness that fell after
the honeymoon was over, what it took to finally drive her to escape and
start her life anew, and her tireless efforts to protect other women and
help them learn from her example.