Publisher's Synopsis
The Brightest Morning Star is a novel about a young, rural, Success, Arkansas girl in a marriage filled with the horrors and struggles of domestic violence. Her pleas for help from family, friends, and even law enforcement fall on deaf ears. The mind-set of domestic violence and abuse of some people in her small town, was a woman should be submissive to her husband and it's no one's business to interfere. As in many domestic violence situations, this one ends in tragedy. In a rage of drunkenness and total violation, Jimmy Dale, the abusive husband of Starshine Marie Fordyce Pindall (The Brightest Morning Star), attacks her. The only way she has to save herself was to reach for her husband's new Christmas present survival knife and repeatedly stab him until he lies lifeless. Afraid and fear of retaliation from her husband's equally abusive family, Starshine flees, with baby in arms, across the country to an unknown future to escape a tormented past. All the while, reflecting on her life as she knew it in rural Success, Arkansas, she is torn between right and wrong.
