THE PRICE OF LOVE

This heart-rending story of a young girl who against all the odds survived terrifying abuse with her spirit intact tells the life story of Nikola and how she was sexually assaulted and raped as a girl and how her disturbed behavior and emotional cries for help were ignored by the adults around her. Her self esteem at rock bottom she fell prey to a frightening stranger a man who would turn her life into a living nightmare. He was handsome and charming and she was too young to see the warning signs. She married him while in her teens. The abuse started on the first night of their honeymoon. Over the next few years she was kept a prisoner sexually abused subject to horrific beatings tormented by her husband who insisted he was only doing this because he loved her. And again those who should have helped her refused to believe that she was telling the truth.