Morrette Allen

When Love & Friendship Hurt Morrette Allen

Publisher Marketing: Four friends each face their own life struggles; Phaedra, struggles with power, and the ability to conceive. She is pushed to the edge of her sanity when an ugly secret is revealed and it consumes her and threatens to destroy her life. Tessa is emotionally and physically abused, and deceived by her husband. She ultimately makes a life changing decision to walk away from years of emotional and physical abuse to find happiness which she longs for. She also carries around a secret which, if revealed, is capable of breaking bonds and destroying lives, even her own. Petra, loyal to her family and grounded in their beliefs, in such a way, that her personal life becomes one of conflicting emotions and heart wrenching decisions which leads to turmoil, as she struggles to hold on to the love she knows she deserves. Stacy is emotionally unstable and she battles for years with being overweight and she allows her weight to decide how she lives her life. Betrayed by the only man she had ever loved and slept with, she becomes consumed with hate and develops a dark obsession and an unrelenting desire for revenge, which takes her down a sadistic path filled with lies and deception, and the decisions she makes leads to an untimely death. Each woman values their friendship in their own way, but soon each discovers that love sometimes is not enough to conquer betrayal and deceit and that when the bond of friendship is broken, nothing remains but hate, lies and ultimately - revenge!