Phoenix Unbroken: Shattered Beginnings

Before she became Phoenix, she was Asha Lennox-a girl who learned to read the room before she understood why.Growing up where love, fear, control, and silence often existed side by side, Asha learned survival long before she learned safety.Shattered Beginnings follows Asha through childhood wounds, adolescence, a devastating assault at eighteen and the response that deepened it, then an unexpected pregnancy that changes the direction of her life. At nineteen, becoming a mother forces her to question what love, protection, and family should mean-and to begin making quiet promises about the kind of love she wants her child to know.Carrying her infant son and more courage than certainty, Asha eventually leaves Ohio for Kansas, hoping that distance might become the beginning of something different.But leaving a place does not always mean leaving behind everything it taught you.This is not the story of a woman who already has everything figured out. It is the beginning of a woman learning that survival is not the same as safety-and the first step toward the identity she will one day choose: Phoenix.Some beginnings shatter you. Others show you what you are capable of surviving.Shattered Beginnings is the first book in the Phoenix Unbroken series.