Wemlinger prefaces his fictional story with true accounts from his time as an Army captain. He watched dozens of women face discrimination, harassment, and abuse at the hands of the countless men who surrounded them; now, 50 years later, this treatment continues. The young woman in question is 22-year-old Sergeant Rebecca Farnsworth, who works on the night shift at First Battalion headquarters. While performing a routine security check, Rebecca is violently assaulted and drugged. When Rebecca awakens, she stands \u201caccused of dereliction of duty and drug use.\u201d With a fierce women\u2019s rights attorney by her side and tenacity in her heart, Rebecca fights tooth and nail to claim both her freedom and her innocence. This realistic novel spans nearly 20 years of Rebecca\u2019s life; in that time, her family is lost and then regained, her heart is shattered and then mended, and her career is crushed and then reborn. At the same time, the author also allows readers into the unbalanced minds of several other complex, damaged, or truly vile characters, such as a serial rapist and the detectives determined to catch him. These taut threads weave together to create a novel that\u2019s courtroom drama, crime thriller, and love story all in one. Wemlinger has constructed a well-plotted story with a clear sense of purpose that\u2019s brimming with themes of resilience, hope, and justice. A range of complex topics\u2014rape, abortion, gender discrimination, and an unjust judicial system, to name a few\u2014are handled in a way that\u2019s accessible to a general readership. Wemlinger vows that readers \u201cwill experience, through the eyes of one young woman, the time, trouble, and perseverance\u201d it took to bring change to the world one step at a time. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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