The Girl Behind the Chair

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>I will kill you if you ever try to leave me again</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> he said quietly. No shouting. No drama. Just a promise-as if it were already decided. As if he owned the ending.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>That was the moment she knew she </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>HAD TO ESCAPE</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>She was the girl behind the chair-the one who hid from the chaos behind </span><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>a faded plaid seat that smelled of old smoke and fear. From a childhood scarred by loss to a marriage marked by control and violence her life became a battle to endure to protect to breathe.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Yet even in the darkness God was there-pursuing calling and redeeming.</span></p><p></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>The Girl Behind the</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Chair</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a powerful true story of survival and grace of a woman who stepped out of the shadows and into the light of the One who never let her go.</span></p><p></p><p>The Girl Behind the Chair is a raw and riveting memoir that traces one woman's journey from a childhood marked by poverty abuse and trauma in the segregated South to a life of broken marriages survival and destructive choices-and ultimately to healing hope and redemption through faith.</p><p></p><p>Cindy Hunt takes readers behind the curtain of her Lumbee Indian heritage and her early life as the youngest of seven children. She reveals the scars of generational pain the struggles of escaping an abusive home and the price she paid in adulthood-through toxic relationships domestic violence and the devastating consequences of running from her true calling.</p><p>But the turning point came when God reached past her striving and her attempts to do for Him and began to heal the deepest place-her heart. For it was in the hidden chambers of the heart not in outward accomplishments where true freedom was found.</p><p></p><p>From a fragile little girl hiding behind a chair to a woman standing in the ashes of broken dreams Cindy's story unfolds with gripping honesty heartache and ultimately breathtaking beauty. Her journey across the U.S. and into the nations of the world-serving in India Kenya the Czech Republic and Ukraine-shows the power of forgiveness surrender and God's ability to bring purpose out of pain.</p><p></p><p>This memoir is not just a personal story; it is an invitation. An invitation to allow God to expose and heal the hidden wounds of the heart to discover that freedom is possible and to see that even the most broken lives can be redeemed and restored.</p><p></p><p>True freedom doesn't come from what we do for God but from letting Him heal the hidden wounds of the heart.</p>