If You Dare Tell - Rick Joyce

The heart-breaking true story ofabuse that destroyed a family

Rose nearly had a happy ending. She was given up for adoption by her teenage mother and placed with a loving couple. But her fate was sealed when her adoptive father died in World War 2 and her mother remarried to a controlling and abusive man, Hugh. Rose soon found herself locked in her room, beaten and raped by a tormentor she could not escape. This pattern continued throughout her childhood.

When former serviceman, Pat, falls in love with her, Rose cannot believe she is worthy. He offers her a chance to escape her horrific home life. Rose happily settles down with Pat, but is haunted by the mental trauma she suffered as a child. When the man who she had to call “Father” takes an interest in her own children, she is forced to tell the secret that she has held on to all her life.

This secret tears her family apart. Her eldest son, Rick, finds himself forced to break the cycle of silence. He knows he must seek revenge, but how far is he willing to go?