Lori, Runaway Wife

Valentine Dmitriev
PublishAmerica (2008)
ISBN 9781606721735
Reviewed by Carol Hoyer for Reader Views (11/08)

 

“Lori, Runaway Wife” is a book that you can’t put down. Through Dmitriev’s excellent description of the characters and the scenes surrounding them, you can almost feel you are there.

Lori Becker is a battered wife. She never knows from one minute to the next when the attacks will occur or for what. But she does know what she needs to do to stop it.

As an intern in a hospital Lori is working at night when several ambulances roll up to the ER door. One patient is a pregnant, unmarried female who is with none other than the famous author Ian Damion. Francine, his companion, delivers a baby boy that night, but it will be a long time before she can see or bond with him. Ian is desperate, in shock, when Lori comes to his aid. The last thing he needs is an overly adoring fan drooling over him.

Ian frequently argues with his inner-child as he has been abandoned in the past, but something about Lori attracts him. She is secretly in love with his books and him. As Lori rushes home to her husband Boyd, she knows she is in big trouble for being late.

By stroke of luck, Mr. Damion asks her to leave with him and be his son’s nanny. What a perfect time as Lori needs to get as far away from Boyd as she can and this is her chance.

Follow Lori’s journey to a new and exciting world where abuse isn’t a part of her life. Be with her when she and Ian fall deeply in love and she has to confess something.

“Lori, Runaway Wife” is a book I would recommend to my Psychology students as it addresses domestic violence, and what an individual will do at all costs to escape it.

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