These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman's Story

Donna Marie Hayes' memoir recounts her impoverished Jamaican childhood and eventual immigration to the United States, where she weathers hardships and becomes a successful single mother. However, she is scammed and robbed of her life savings by the "love of her life" she meets on an online dating site, making the scam the last run along the broken roads of her past.

Format: Unspecified
Length: 200 pages
Publication date: 16 November 2023
Publisher: Sibylline Press

Donna Marie Hayes was a woman of remarkable fortitude and intelligence. She had endured an immense amount of hardship throughout her life. In this captivating memoir, Hayes vividly recounts her impoverished Jamaican childhood and her eventual immigration to the United States at the age of 14. She faced numerous challenges, including a strict church upbringing, family abandonment, and abusive marriages. Despite these adversities, she managed to break free and become a single mother.

Decades later, Donna had achieved great success in New York City. She had a flourishing career on Wall Street and was even starring in her own one-woman show on Broadway. However, her triumph was short-lived when she fell victim to a scam orchestrated by the "love of her life" she had met online. The mastermind behind this deceitful scheme was not a faceless online fraudster hiding behind a computer screen in a distant land; rather, he had lived beside Donna for over a year and a half, pretending to be the man of her dreams.

This is the story of how Donna Marie Hayes overcame this devastating setback and reclaimed her power. She made the decision to confront the scam and her choice of such a man, recognizing it as the final chapter in the long and winding road of her past. Through her resilience and determination, Hayes emerged stronger than ever before, ready to face whatever challenges lay ahead.

Weight: 298g
Dimension: 136 x 216 x 17 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781736795446