Sister Of Silence is truly an inspirational account of one woman whose indomitable spirit led her on a journey to self-discovery and empowerment, where she refused to be silenced.

This memoir tells the story of one abused woman who nearly reached the point of no return, while exploring one of the largest epidemics of our time in a manner that is, by turns, both calmly detached and full of gritty emotion. Sister Of Silence looks at the heartrending reasons why some women choose suicide or even murder as a way out ... but then shows how such deadly thoughts can be overcome.

Sister Of Silence is the first book of its kind, written by an award-winning journalist and columnist who is daring enough to reveal how she arrived at that point of no return. More important, it explores how she found the strength to walk away, and ultimately turned her life around in the process.

The most recent data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) states that about 1.5 million women are raped or physically assaulted each year by someone who is supposed to love them (an intimate partner). In addition, this violence results in 1,300 deaths annually, as well as two million injuries. Indeed, experts say10-14 percent of married women in this country are raped by their husbands.

But since most violence against women goes unreported, experts say from 960,000 to 4 million women are physically assaulted by men they know and love each year in the United States. And the FBI reports that in 2006, 32-percent of female murder victims were killed by their husbands or boyfriends. Sister Of Silence takes a hard look at how many of these women end up in such tragic situations, by fearlessly exploring where one of these women came from, and showing how other women can be set free from their silence.

In this gripping memoir, Berry lets readers take a candid look into her teenage years in Appalachia, where she grew up among the coal fields of West Virginia. Pregnant at sixteen and later married off to her unborn child’s father, she was suicidal by age twenty-one, after finding herself mother to four small children.

Suddenly Berry was forced to make one of the most agonizing decisions of her young years-–the only one that would save her life and preserve her sanity. For women who have faced these problems and prayed for a way out, or know a loved one who has–-this is a must read!