How much would you pay to save your child?  

 

For Teresa, the price was twenty-five years to life.

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The world saw an envied postcode and a "perfect gentleman." But behind the doors of their beautiful Victorian home, Teresa was living a nightmare of calculated sadism.

For ten years, she waited for someone to see past the mask. For ten years, the world played the role of the bystander — watching the "fairy-tale" from the outside while the walls inside were closing in.

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When Teresa realised the path of destruction was heading straight for her thirteen-year-old daughter, she knew she couldn't wait for a rescue that was never coming. She had to find the only other way out — a choice that would end the torment but cost her everything.

Now, from the silence of a 6x8 cell, Teresa offers her brutal truth. This isn’t a plea for forgiveness; it is the haunting confession of a mother who traded her soul to buy her daughter a future.

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From the five-star author of The Girl in the Yellow Dress comes a devastating psychological thriller about the limits of endurance and the lethal power of a mother’s love.