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When Cass’s mother passed away, she went home to the funeral and suddenly she was faced with the reality of a life that she did not know. Finding her mother’s journal, she learned about a woman who was trapped in a prison her entire life.
Being home again in the familiar, with her mother’s words in her hands, Cass realizes that she too has created her own prison. The trouble was, did she have the means to escape?
Written by Rebecca Milton
Published by AmorBooks
On death row, you live in a nine by seven foot cell alone until your time comes, and they kill you. Put you to death. There are cells on either side of you, and there are voices of the other inmates in their own little boxes. Voices that are angry, taunting, shouting and cursing. Voices that are plaintive and prayerful. There are, I have read, deep, real, meaningful friendships that develop between people, despite walls, despite solitude. Still, you’re in a cell alone, and you are not allowed to have contact with the rest of the population.
Some people spend years, decades on death row. There are appeals and stays. There are moments when a prisoner has been brought to the room where he will be strapped to a table, wait to be injected and then, a call comes, and he receives a stay from the governor, new…
