To Reclaim Her Life, Traumatized Woman Faces a Challenging Assignment in New Novel

After back-to-back traumas have driven a young woman into spiraling despair and silent retreat, a psychiatrist presents the ultimate life-line in the form of an assignment to write about her memories.

Acworth, Ga. (PRWEB) May 10, 2007 -- Author Darlene F. Wofford shares the fact-based account of her personal experiences with amnesia and post-traumatic stress disorder in her inspirational new novel, Edgewise: An Assignment to Remember (now available through AuthorHouse).

Told through the eyes of the author's alter-ego, Delaney Rutherford, Edgewise tells the story of how two emotionally traumatic experiences changed her life forever. Her ordeal begins when she finds her young son drowned in the backyard pool. Three weeks later she is abducted by two men and sexually assaulted at gunpoint.

Shattered by these two events, Delaney's mind has shut down to block out memories of the incidents. Consequently, she is unable to remember most other memories from her past. Silenced by her inability to communicate and remember, she is committed to the Oakwood Institute.

The story begins in the office of her psychiatrist, Dr. Terri Robinson. Faced with the difficult task of bringing Delaney back to reality, Dr. Robinson issues her the ultimate lifeline through a challenging assignment to write about her first memories - an "assignment to remember."

Delaney leaves the institute to spend a long holiday weekend with her family. She is pleasantly surprised when an unexpected vision of youth opens a floodgate of memories that unfold onto the pages as Delaney begins to bring herself back to reality. As she recalls her life, the events are narrated in Edgewise and interspersed with scenes from her therapy sessions with Dr. Robinson interspersed to chronicle her progression back to reality.

"Edgewise provides an emotional mixture of humor, sadness, tragedy and inspiration, but more than anything this story is one of unmitigated love and healing. I am always inspired when I read of someone overcoming life's roadblocks, and I sincerely hope my readers are inspired in the same way," Wofford says.

Wofford continues on her own path of recovery. She and her husband, Carl, have been married for 40 years. She works in the mortgage finance industry and serves as marketing director for Mortgage Consulting Services, Inc. She is a graduate of the highly acclaimed London Image Institute and serves as director of the institute's graduate division. She is also a certified image consultant and a member of the Association of Image Consultants International. An Assignment to Remember is the first of three novels in Wofford's Edgewise series. The next installment, Seven Years 'Til Sunrise, is scheduled for release in the spring of 2008. More information is available at www.darlenewofford.com.

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