About the book\, No Way Out but Throug h\, released August 18\, 2026: \;
\nWhen author Shannon Irw in meets Grace Ferrall and agrees to interview the younger woman and tell the story of Grace&rsquo\;s forced child marriage and harrowing youth\, th ese very different women begin an unlikely relationship. Grace&rsquo\;s or deal starts in Louisiana\, with an alcoholic father and a mother whose moo d swings are often intolerable. When Grace is barely fifteen and living in Oklahoma\, her mother manipulates her into marrying Rafe\, a scurrilous\, older man. Pregnant at sixteen\, Grace is soon living in a truck near a r iver in Oregon with Rafe&rsquo\;s cult-like family.
\nAfter years of abuse and multiple pregnancies and miscarriages\, with the help of an unl ikely ally\, Grace escapes. But her newfound freedom is fragile\, and she is forced to make impossible choices to protect herself and her two daught ers. Trust builds between the women as Grace shares details she has never told anyone\, while Shannon\, with a daughter Grace&rsquo\;s age\, and rid den with guilt about her former marriage\, reveals the dysfunction in her own life and the remorse she suffers.
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