A Survivor's Tale By Christine Stein [a pseudonym] with Foreword by Suzanne Somers Climbing Out of the Wreck is the story of a courageous young woman who grew up in a home headed by a sexual predator who molested her sister from the age of three, and then raped her when she grew older. Christine’s mother lost her mind when Christine was only fourteen, disappearing until she was a mother herself. Her story recounts the secrets and lies that were designed to protect the darkest family secret of all, which had the effect of making the eight children strangers to each other, and then prisoners of the passions that disordered their lives and set them against each other. CALL 516-735-5468 or e-mail Sandy to schedule interviews with Christine Stein. Christine’s story is filled with intense dramas - the horrifying revenge of the chosen son, the struggle between mother and daughter to the edge of the grave, and finally, the saga of Christine’s climb out of the family wreck: how choosing life instead of abortion and the birth of her child provided a new compass; how the family traumas failed to derail her quest to free herself and her new family from the chains of the past. The climax of her tale is a showdown with her siblings set off by the dark revelations of the sister at the center of the family secret. In Climbing Out of the Wreck, you'll learn: How an abusive family operates under a web of secrets to cover up the crimes that its members commit - in this case the father’s rape of his daughter and the mother’s collusion... and the toll this takes on individual members who are made to feel guilty every time they tell the truth. For example, the victim in this story took her parents to court where they attacked her as a liar, a drug addict and a party animal. The way the abuses are handed down through the generations How Christine's mother went insane and forced her to be on her own at the age of 14... and how this abandonment was repeated from previous generations. The toll the abuses and lies took on her 7 siblings... how it wrecked their lives. How she rescued herself by deciding to have her child as a single mother and by dedicating her life to seeing that he did not grow up in a home like hers. This is an inspiring, beautifully told story of individual courage with life lessons for others seeking to break free of similar circumstances. "Eye-opening, riveting, jaw-dropping, courageous, heartbreaking, infuriating, and ulti