Every teacher was once a student - every woman was once a child... What makes a person forget their identity? What makes them become someone else? What makes them desire pain... control... and ultimately pleasure? It's not anything that happens overnight, over even in a few weeks. Tragedy beyond what a person can ever imagine will forever alter Mary's future. Mary's life is boring, conservative, and typical. She wants adventure, thrills, and so much more. But she'll soon learn to be careful what to wish for when she's taken against her will and thrust into the twisted world of a powerful man who doesn't care about what she wants. When Mary starts becoming Elena, she does find a savior, but is he truly the person who will protect her, or will he be the one to escort her straight into the pits of hell? Forgetting who she is or where she belongs, she learns she can trust no one, rely on only herself, and fall further than she ever thought possible. She'll become someone else and the cycle will begin. She'll become the person who will eventually change the life of so many others. Some might say the change is good, the violence is necessary. And some will cry for this tragedy that should've been stopped. Just when you think you know how it all came about, how it will end, you'll be floored again by who can be trusted... and who can't. Note from the author: This book isn't anything like what I've written before. I had a dream, the opening scene of this book, actually after thinking and thinking and thinking about a character in a series I'd read. I woke up and lay there for a while, and still couldn't push it away, so I got up, wrote the first chapter. Then I lay back down and was back out of bed within fifteen minutes, where I gave up on sleep and sat at my computer all night and all the next day until my eyes wouldn't stay open anymore. Then for the next week, all I did was eat and sleep (minimally) and the first dr