When an idealistic college girl from Iowa meets an exciting Jamaican inventor with plans to save the world, she drops everything to begin a new life with him. What she doesn't expect - and what no woman expects - is that her husband turns out to be a brutal, abusive cheater who threatens to kill her or their children if she tries to escape. Written by a survivor of domestic violence, The Flaws that Bind takes readers inside the lonely terror and psychological trauma that battered women and children endure when there seems to be no safe way out.