Assassin Of Dreams

by Ariel Barrington, Stone Vale

Mildred Akins waved goodbye to her eldest son, Daniel, as he departed for school on that typical fall morning in 1944. Moments later, the local sheriff and his deputy arrived at her door, wrestled her into a strait jacket, gagged her with a stained handkerchief, drove her down the narrow tree lined road that lead to Lynball State Hospital for the criminally insane, and left her. Night after night, month after month, year after year...the forty four year old wife of a prominent physician and the mother to two young sons, lay⎯all but buried⎯in the bowels of that ungodly asylum. Filthy, isolated, tortured...the more she struggled, the more she screamed, the more she begged for answers, the worse things became, until finally...she stopped. For the remainder of her confinement, she kept to herself; she rarely spoke; she prayed, constantly and silently, that she'd done nothing to warrant her brutal punishment; and then she waited. After eighteen years, she is free...her goal: to find out who stole her life, and why. Her quest takes her terrifyingly close to people and places she's only seen in nightmares...wonderfully close to a life she's only dreamed of. Triumph demands courage, discipline, focus; the price of failure is the lives of those she loves.

346 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 1, 2010

Reviews

[Pati Mooring · Rating 5 out of 5]

Insane, I don't think so!

This is an amazing tale of betrayal, love, friendship and sacrifice. The Atkins family story is one amAzing tale. I laughed and cried in this book. It brings you into the lives of all that were involved including the crime, obscene amounts of money and sacrifices that had to be made. I look forward to telling the author that I enjoyed her book immensely.