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For a date night back in graduate school when my life took a sharp right turn, I slipped on a pair of new red high heels, never dreaming I\u2019d break them in by jumping out of a Mercedes and running away from the man who kidnapped me. I was the victim of sexual assault. For years afterward I blamed myself. Relived the night, asking, what did I <\/em>do wrong to make him take advantage of me? What should I have done\u2026 why didn\u2019t I fight back harder? I couldn\u2019t, the man I dated was drinking heavily and bigger and stronger than me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Questions and more questions, but no answers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I kept the details of that night to myself, afraid to share my experience with anyone. Afraid I\u2019d be judged. As if it were my fault.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I left the university and went off the grid for a year. I traveled throughout the US in a job that let me get lost\u2026 never staying for more than two days to two weeks in one town. I glammed myself up in a blonde wig and fashionable clothes to forget and pushed the old me into hiding. Then something cool happened. I found purpose in my cosmetics work, bringing a smile to ladies\u2019 faces young and old when I did makeovers for them, traveling from the Big Apple to Amarillo. It was the era when the grande dame<\/em> department stores ruled the downtowns. I was a language major in college, but I also studied art and costume design and I enjoyed creating color palettes and showing ladies how to look their best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until the old fear reared its ugly head.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019d freeze if I saw someone who reminded me of him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I couldn\u2019t get into a car without checking to make sure the doors were unlocked.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I didn\u2019t feel safe alone with a man.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To gain confidence in myself, I took self-defense classes, but it took me years before I could talk about what happened. The strange thing is, that came about because of my writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve written four books about Occupied Paris and Berlin during World War 2. I\u2019ve covered the concentrations camps, the Resistance, dealing with life under the Nazis, saving Jewish children. It wasn\u2019t until I wrote Sisters At War<\/em> that I attempted to write about the sexual violence women faced from the Nazis and the Gestapo\u2026 the horror and humiliation, not to mention the physical pain and degrading of their bodies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

War crimes against women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was appalled and shocked by the inhumane and horrific treatment I unearthed in my research against French and Jewish women.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was even more disheartened when I discovered that rape wasn\u2019t prosecuted as a war crime at the Nuremberg Trials. That haunted me and set me into motion to tell the story about the two Beaufort Sisters in Paris in 1940 when one of them is raped by an SS officer and the effect it has on both<\/em> sisters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sisters At War<\/em> is the hardest book I\u2019ve ever written, reliving my own experience through the eyes of the Beaufort Sisters\u2026 but writing the sequel Sisters of the Resistance<\/em> is just as hard because I\u2019m dealing with the aftermath of sexual violence and how it affects the rest of their lives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went on with my life, but the mental and emotional anguish stayed with me until I started writing about it. Then I couldn\u2019t type fast enough. I find there\u2019s power in sharing, a healing of the soul and mind. And most of all\u2014     <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m not afraid to talk about it anymore. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jina ‘glammed up’ in blonde wig <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sisters At War:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

US https:\/\/a.co\/d\/eZ25gZb<\/a>      <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK https:\/\/amzn.eu\/d\/0LEWy2z<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who are the Beaufort Sisters?<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re beautiful<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re smart<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re dangerous<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They\u2019re at war with the Nazis\u2026 and each other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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