Ashes, ashes, don’t fall down

Dedicated to those who have been trapped in abuse, this is the story of one girls survival. Escaping into books, she is able to endure until she reaches adulthood, when she walks out of her troubling past and into the promise of her own future. Along with a mantra taken from a nursery rhyme, and the companionship of fictitious and biographical characters of Nancy Crew, Laura Ingalls, Anne Shirley, Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, Harriet Tubman, Charles Dickens, and George Washington Carver, she navigates her way to freedom.