Out of the Darkness Into the Light: A Memoir: Of Suicide Survival, Strength and

The True Confessions of a Suicide Survivor

Fighting seven years of crippling depression in a chaotic dysfunctional family, Kerri can't imagine living another day without hope. She decides to end it all….!

In the wake of a failed suicide attempt, she is terrifyingly “imprisoned” in a Mental Health Hospital to which, when released, she will be returned unless she strictly follows the new house rules. Now she is lonelier than ever as she is ostracized at school for what she has attempted to do and failed at. After all, she learns, no-one wants to talk to a freak!

In a bid to re-unite the family, her parents take her to sunny Florida for an amazing Disney World experience where she meets Trevor, the boy of her dreams. Then, she discovers, to her dismay -- he lives an ocean away from her!

Quickly falling in love, a long distance relationship ensues. In a time when email and texting does not exist can Kerri and Trevor keep their relationship going? Can Kerri re-build her life and get back to a new “normal”?

“Out of the Darkness and Into the Light” is Kerri’s shocking, heartbreaking and sometimes funny account of self-discovery, acceptance, strength and love, sure to resonate in the hearts of all who read it.

Kerri and Trevor fall in love whilst on holiday. But Trevor is from England and Kerri lives in the U.S.A. How will love find a way to overcome an ocean divide and a terrible secret?