A page-turner.

  --Constant Reader

 Compelling.

  --Exclusive Magazine

 A fascinating,tragic,and absorbing read…Opens with a chilling muder trial…Susan Sloan is great at Building suspense.

  --RoundTableReview.com

 Raised in a large, loving Irish Catholic family, Valerie O'Connor is a sheltered and innocent young woman who comes of age in the 1950s. When, at age eighteen,she meets and fallsdeeply in love with Jack Marsh, a dashing veteran of the Air Force, she has no idea that she is about to begin a relationship that is doomed from the start. Their many years of marriage are filled with Jack's drunken rages followed by morning-after remorse, and scenes of escalating violence witnessed by children too terrified to speak out lest they become Jack's next victims.

 BEHIND CLOSED DOORS is a powerful story of a marriage begun with the best intentions but cursed by a legacy of violence that has shocking consequences.

PART ONE 1955

PART TWO 1962

PART THREE 1967

PART FOUR 1974

PART FIVE 1978

PART SIX 1982

PART SEVEN 1990

PART EIGHT 1999

PART NINE 2000