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Kathleen is a sensitive and
caring woman who has spent the majority of her life in an
abusive marriage.
She comes to a cross-road in
her middle-aged life—she has lost her dignity and her self-worth
because of her husband’s frequent verbal and physical abuse
throughout the years.
As she resigns herself to her
nightmarish reality, her subconscious—the healthy and alive part
of whom she truly is—emerges. Within her dream world, she is
young and beautiful. Living in this state, she experiences love
at its truest form with a loving man
young man named
Joseph. Kathleen is able to cope, to love, and to feel joy for
the first time in her life.
Her husband, jealous of his
wife’s preoccupation and her “escapes,” becomes enraged.
Kathleen is exposed to her husband’s most violent outbursts of
their marriage, and she narrowly escapes losing her life.
Will Kathleen permanently
escape her abuse and at what cost? Can she find the strength
within herself to make her dream world a dream come true or will
she die trying?
Gibbs deftly explores the
emotional landscape of abuse—what it does to the victim and what
it does to the psyche. With clarity and heart-wrenching,
beautifully written narration, Gibbs gives voice to a subject
that is not discussed in polite company.
Sweet Dreams,
its message, and its protagonist will find a place in your heart
and soul and stay there, long after the final page is turned.
About the Author
Kathi Gibbs is a fulltime
writer. Ms. Gibbs has written a column for a local newspaper and
is currently working on a novel. She has three sons and five
grandchildren and lives in Pennsylvania.
All during her life she had dreamed of becoming a writer and
when her children were grown and had moved “out of the nest” she
enrolled in an English Composition course at the University of
Pittsburgh. Encouraged and inspired by her professor she
started to seriously pursue her lifelong desire - to write. She
has written a weekly column for a local newspaper and hopes her
novella Sweet Dreams will be the first of many to come.
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