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Sara Niles was a former victim of extreme domestic violence as a young woman that led to her being forced to disappear with five small children in 1987, when she was only twenty-nine years old. In 1995, the birth of the book Torn From the Inside Out began the odyssey of The Torn series, the unforgettable literary journey of life.

In accord with the spirit of the poem Invictus by William Ernest Henley, Sara Niles became the 'master of her fate and the captain of her soul'; after her escape, Niles spent twelve years obtaining academic secondary and post secondary education and experience in psychology, sociology, behavioral science and domestic violence, mental health and drug addiction dynamics. The goal of Sara Niles was to weave the underlying dynamics of human behavior into the Torn series unobtrusively like a shadow, so that the reading of Torn is as entertaining as it is informative. The artistic beauty of the author's writing is a direct result of accumulated personal, academic and professional experience that makes Sara Niles unique as an author of nonfiction memoirs.

The Torn Trilogy is the culmination of over fifteen years of work refining the pages of a passionate and literary work of art created from the "Pain so great as to tear the soul inside out" (Torn From the Inside Out)

Niles (Pen name for Josephine Thompson) is a former Professional Domestic Violence Trainer & Drug, Alcohol and Substance Abuse counselor

My Books:
The complete Torn Trilogy is approximately 1200 pages of literary narrative

Literary Narrative Nonfiction: Over fifteen years in the making in order to tell a tale so great, as to tear the soul inside out

The Torn Trilogy contains three complete works, written in a compelling literary narrative style that is unprecedented in the realm of literary narrative nonfiction. Using powerful literary symbolisms and metaphors, well developed characterizations and powerful emotional impact, The Torn series takes the reader on the journey of a lifetime.

Let the Journey Begin… Sara Niles



Sample of first book of The Torn Trilogy:

Excerpt
Chapter One Torn From the Inside Out

“Thunder rattled the window- panes two stories high and lightning split the sky, it was as if the whole world was in turmoil that night. My nerves were keyed up as tight as piano strings and in a sudden moment of stillness and silence it felt as though my heartbeat was amplified ten times over. He was over a hundred pounds greater than I; nearly a foot taller and I knew he could move his muscled body into unbelievable sprints. Rain started falling in torrents, while the storm raged outside. I was not afraid of the storms of nature; it was the storm inside this night that I knew I might not survive”…February 13th, 1987, the night of Sara Niles’ flight with her five small children."
The Torn Trilogy

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Sometimes the reason for writing compels the author until the work is finished:

I was born naturally gifted with a talent for writing that was polished by traumatic life experiences which fueled the passion behind my writing.

Torn From the Inside Out was my first book; the writing of which began in 1995, eight years after being forced to flee for my life with five young children in 1987 when I was only twenty nine years old.

I wrote Torn From the Inside Out using the pseudonym Sara Niles, pouring out my deep-seated pain and anguish of having been a victim of domestic violence for almost fifteen years, along with my repressed fears and untold secrets; thus releasing the shame and guilt that comes with such an oppressed life and shedding it forever.

Much of my education was accrued l ‘hard way’ as my Uncle Robert used to say, for example, my own personal knowledge merged with empirical statistics reveals that domestic violence and family discord tend to follow victims throughout family generations, as Learned Behavior and negative images from childhood, are hard to shake free. It is because of my knowledge of such factors gained after having completed the writing of Torn From the Inside Out and subsequently obtaining education and training in the field of psychology and human behavior, that I realized the story had only begun. In order to properly address the complications of embodied in family dysfunction, two more books were needed in order to tell the ‘rest of the story’ as Paul Harvey (1918-2009) famously said.
The Torn Trilogy was completed in 2011, after almost sixteen years of struggle and strain toward the literary ‘finish line’, the crowning touch of my life’s work.

The Torn Trilogy is a twelve-hundred page mammoth work that includes Torn From the Inside Out, The Journey and Out of the Maelstrom. The Journey is the story of the children of ‘Torn’, as they fought to find their way in the world and Out of the Maelstrom is told from outside my own personal experience as I came in contact with ‘others’, such as the woman who was set aflame and wore the scars to prove it, the children whose animal-like behavior marked them as cases of ‘Reactive Attachment Disorder’ (RAD), as they exhibited the extreme symptoms of having lived in savage conditions with savage people. The third book of the Torn Trilogy broadens the perspective of the massive problem that arises when ‘man against man’ is the common theme within family bonds, as the selected individual accounts defy both morality and humanity. With the final book of the trilogy, speaking as the first hand narrator (Sara Niles), I emerged out of the maelstrom only to find a world of people still trapped within it, thus Out of the Maelstrom stands as a testament to not only the suffering inflicted upon man, but more importantly, the power of the human spirit to survive against all odds.

Sara Niles

I am Sara Niles. I spent ten years as a domestic violence counselor and Trainer, after my escape in 1987, and having obtained a post-secondary education. My work inside the front lines of domestic violence allowed me to come face to face with thousands of victims and victimizers. It was through this personal exposure that I realized how ingrained the stain of human dysfunction can become and how difficult it is to escape it. The generational impact of domestic abuse, dysfunction and violence not only affects individuals by warping the schema of children when their perceptions are most impressionable, but it spills into society via drug and substance addiction and deviant behavior that often ends in imprisonment.

I have always loved the art of great literature, and developed an affinity for the classics at a young age that has matured over the years like taste in fine wine. If had lived an ideal life, I would have written about ideal lives, but because I lived and survived an unconventional life filled with an undue amount of trauma and loss, my writings are filled with the passion and pain of traumatic experiences.

My drive to write about such a serious subject as domestic violence and family dysfunction is integral to my qualifications as a writer: A former victim of extreme domestic violence as a young woman; spent twelve years obtaining an academic education along with professional work experience. My extensive training in psychology, sociology, the behavioral sciences, as well as over a decade working in the fields of domestic violence, mental health and drug addiction counseling, enabled me to include the subtle dynamics of human motivation within my writings, embedded unobtrusively like a shadow and to write the final book of the Torn Trilogy from a humanistic, global perspective.


The Torn Trilogy