Violence Memoir

The word inamorata means lover; more specifically, a female lover. It is a romantic word. An intimate word. A word that curdled her blood. Because it was his name for her. His token of affection. What he always called her before he brought her into a world of pain. But all of that is behind her. She has escaped, moved on, and even found new love - a new love who is determined to protect her, heal her, and give her the fairy-tale love she so sorely deserves. Unfortunately, not all fairytales have happy endings....

This was Nina Young's shocking realisation in her mid-20s, when she found out from online court records that her estranged father, Allan Ladd, had strangled a woman to death decades before. In prison he'd met Denise, Nina's mother, who was his tutor. Although Denise didn't know the extent of Allan's crime when she fell in love with him, by the time she found out, she was in too deep. She had to flee from him before Nina turned two. A decade after reading the court records, Nina, now a journalist, decided to release a podcast to tackle the questions she'd been asking herself ever since.