Whiplash (Paperback)

When a condom pops, Tess's life swings one eighty degrees. She is grimly determined to get back on track, to continue to pop painkillers by the bunch and sell her body to strangers. To do this however, she needs to take a break from her drugs. Tess's cold turkey opens up a window in her psyche. Her new sobriety invites awful truths into her memory. Pictures from the past ambush her mind and Tess is whipped into a shattering understanding of how she got here. But while she is stalked by vivid, frightening flash backs, her universe conspires to heal her. Friends close in on her, despite her efforts to isolate herself. Tess hits the road harder, flogs her body, but there is no going back. She learns to see iracles, even in pain. She finds herself sewing sequins onto bright, silky cloth. She finds herself earning to belly dance, "Shik shik" with her hips. Tess dumps her old identity in chunks and gets ready to dance.