The Secret Language of Crows

Sometimes to save your life. .You must face your past. And sometimes you must kill it. One brutal lover's spat too many makes Olivia decide her only way out of a violent same-sex relationship is on a stretcher. But life has other plans. When her father suffers a stroke and needs 24 hour care, she realizes this is a chance to start fresh and heal her fragile spirit. Not to mention, escape the brutal hands that bruise her body.
But it requires the one thing she swore she would never do: Go home. Can Olivia find a way to resolve the ghosts of her troubled past or will it leave her trapped in her the darkest parts of her psyche? If you enjoy deeply introspective fiction with dark themes you will want to give Secret Language of Crows a try. This stand alone novel is a cross between womens literary fiction and psychological thriller that explores the strength of family ties and the secret lives within them.  In the tradition of Canadian women writers, the author delivers a story both dark and brutal that somehow finds a way to the light.