Never has a book so boldly detailed the collateral damage caused by raising a child with a drug addiction. It will raise the hair on the back of your neck and at times take your breath away as the author's tale of trying to make it through another day unfolds like dirty laundry. It is painfully honest and reads like a roller coaster out of control. From the moment you open the book you will be captivated by the lyrical conversations between the author and the angel sent to watch over her. You will come to understand that the unconditional love of a parent can be so binding, so intensely powerful, so completely absorbing that they become willing to lose all of themselves to save an addicted child from dirty dancing with the devil.
Jacqueline Brown has been a reporter for nearly a decade and has won several journalism awards. She currently lives in California with her husband, two children and her beloved pet Miles. She is currently working on her new book Recovery's A Bitch, the sequel to Dancing With The Devil.
"I listen and try to hold on. It's maternal these strings that keep up attached, joined at the hip through it all. But as surely as the sun rises, I must place myself, my own pain, in the shadow hidden where she can't see. I must be the strength she needs that will open her to walk the walk towards sobriety, because in hers I may find my own."