The Hero Inside Her

After fifteen years of marriage, Sia Powell is forced to face the hurtful truth. Her husband is an abusive, controlling, selfish individual, who loves only himself, and incapable of loving her. He married her under false pretenses. Manipulated her for years. Sia desperately wants to escape her lonely life and her loveless marriage, but stays after he threatens to kill her if she ever tries to leave him. Sia suffers in silence. Until one day she meets and befriends, Elijah Thornton.Elijah Thornton was born into a world of hopelessness. His family is dysfunctional. His dreams of escaping his family generational cycle of living in property and addiction is killed before it could be birth into reality. His future bleak, his life expectancy short, as he is living and hustling in the tormented, impoverished streets of South Side Chicago. He drops out of school after completing the eighth grade. Under educated, he learns to survive pushing drugs to the residents in his neighborhood, with members of his gang family. Elijah is caught-up in an unwanted life, living in hell, daily. Until one day he meets Sia Powell. A woman who reaches for his hand as he stands on the edge of the cliff. Her bravery encourages him to change his outlook on life.