Angela Rising

Angela Morrison has spent her life learning how to survive, first in a crumbling home in Williamstown, Virginia, where poverty and volatility taught her to measure danger by the sound of a door, and then as a brilliant young woman who claws her way toward something better. But when first love turns into a cage, Angela makes the hardest choice she knows: she leaves everything familiar and boards a one-way bus to Fort Lauderdale with $340, a backpack, and a promise to herself that she will not become her mother’s story. In Florida, she builds a career helping other women escape violence, convinced she’s finally outrun the past, until she marries Brian Peterson, a charming man whose devotion slowly reveals itself as surveillance, isolation, and control.As Angela’s private life unravels behind closed doors, hidden drinking, shifting stories, other women, and a rage that starts with walls but never stays there, she’s forced to confront the most dangerous question of all: what happens when the person you love uses your worst wounds against you? With the support of the women around her and the fierce self she thought she’d lost, Angela begins documenting the truth, preparing to reclaim her life before it disappears completely. If you’re drawn to stories of grit, reclamation, and the hard-won courage to redefine your future, Angela Rising will grip your heart and refuse to let go. Read more