"Within the walls of a tasteful\, perfectl y kept house in North Carolina's Blue Ridge Mountains\, young Zane Bigelow feels like a prisoner of war. Strangers -- and even Zane's own aunt acros s the lake -- see his parents as a successful surgeon and his stylish wife \, making appearances at their children's ballet recitals and baseball gam es. Zane and his sister know the truth: There is something terribly wrong. As his father's violent\, controlling rages -- and his mother's complicit y -- become more and more oppressive\, Zane counts the years\, months\, da ys until he can escape. He looks out for little Britt. In fear for his ver y life\, he plays along with the insidious lie that everything is fine\, w hile scribbling his real thoughts in a secret journal he must carefully hi de away. When one brutal\, shattering night finally reveals cracks in the façade\, Zane begins to understand that some people are willing to fac e the truth\, even when it hurts. As he grows into manhood and builds a ne w kind of family\, he will find that while the darkness of his past may al ways shadow him\, it will also show him what is necessary for good to triu mph -- and give him strength to draw on when he once again must stand up a nd defend himself and the ones he loves ..."
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