Exit Signs (The Exit Signs Chronicles Book 1) Kindle Edition

Exit Signs Book 1: Exit SignsWhen you have nowhere to go, any door looks like open arms.Some doors don't close; they slam. At eighteen, Stella Hart had a plan: early graduation, a Stanford acceptance letter, and a future she'd built from scratch. Then her mother threw her out with nothing but a pile of clothes and a slammed door, and everything Stella thought she'd earned disappeared overnight.Homeless, broke, and alone in the SF Bay Area, Stella finds shelter in the arms of a man who seems like salvation. Jim offers safety, stability, and love. But safety, she will learn, can be a cage, and love can be a leash dressed up as loyalty.As Jim's generosity quietly hardens into control, Stella begins to see what she almost missed: the exits were always there. She just had to choose one. Exit Signs is a raw, unflinching story of a young woman who did everything right and still had to fight her way back to herself, through homelessness, coercive control, and an unplanned pregnancy, armed with nothing but her intelligence, her instincts, and the stubborn belief that her future still belonged to her.For readers who know what it means to survive the people who were supposed to love you. Read more