{"product_id":"9781736795446","title":"These Broken Roads","description":"\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;mso-margin-bottom-alt:\n8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;line-height:normal\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eIn this gripping and honest memoir, Jamaican\nimmigrant Donna Marie Hayes recounts how at the peak of her American success in\nNew York City, she is scammed and robbed of her life’s savings by the “love of\nher life” met on an online dating site and how she vindicates herself to\novercome a lifetime of bad choices.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;\"\u003eDonna Hayes had fortitude and smarts. She’d already survived so much. At\nthe top of her game, thriving in New York City no less, her career was soaring\non Wall Street and she was starring in her own one woman show off Broadway. To\nbe scammed by a man she had met on a dating app, someone she thought she would\nmarry, shocked and shamed her. This wasn’t the way it was supposed to be. In\nJamaica as a child, death had come for Hayes three times. Each time she\nsurvived it and her beloved grandma reminded her that God had her back, that\nshe was destined for greatness.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eYet, in the\npoverty and loneliness of her childhood, it was hard to believe. Every day she\ndreamed of going to America and joining her birth family, never understanding\nwhy she had been left behind. When she was 14, her mother finally sent for\nher. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eDonna’s\nelation was soon offset by the challenges of her new life. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eFrom her\nmother’s strict church to an early marriage, single motherhood, and a second\ndisastrous and abusive marriage, when Donna finally escaped, she vowed to never\nagain subject herself to relationships and people who harmed her. And for the\nnext eight years, she kept that vow. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eThen Hayes met\nthe man of her dreams, Javier De Leon, on a dating website and they became\ninseparable. Before long, their love undeniable, he proposed and tattooed her\ninitials in large bold letters across his chest. But 18 months and $177,000\nlater, it all fell apart. Hayes learned that she had been a target from the\nbeginning, the victim of a romance\/real estate scam perpetrated by a career\ncriminal and ex-con from The Bronx. Suddenly, her financial independence was at\nrisk and so was her ability to trust herself. \u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-top:0in;\nmso-margin-bottom-alt:8.0pt;mso-margin-top-alt:0in;mso-add-space:auto;\nline-height:normal\"\u003eThis is the\nstory of how that woman rose yet again to find her power, making the scam and\nher choice of De Leon the last run along the broken roads of her past.\u003co:p\u003e\u003c\/o:p\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Donna Marie Hayes","offers":[{"title":"Sibylline Press |  Paperback \/ softback | Trade paperback (US) |  2023-10-13","offer_id":44230082887935,"sku":"9781736795446","price":25.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_b37376eb-3bf8-432f-b597-c91d4ea9c00d.jpg?v=1693003378","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9781736795446","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}