Surviving Broken Promises

Surviving Broken Promises covers the life of Cassandra, a teenage black girl, up through the ripe age of thirty-three. Cassandra's character starts off young and naive but she progresses into a very intelligent woman. Because of the trust Cassandra bestowed in men in five very different relationships, she has had to survive the tribulations associated with being a teenage mother, a battered wife, adultery, being the other woman, an inter-racial relationship and mental illness. She survived all of this while still trying to hold on to her morals. Surviving Broken Promises not only tells a story but it also shows how one person can get out of bad situations and how a teenage mother can become a role model and not just a statistic. Cassandra will have you both laughing and crying with her and sometimes you'll just want to step into the story and take her by the hand. But as Cassandra gets older, she truly gets wiser and sometimes even witty and cocky. Cassandra eventually grows from each experience but before she puts it all in the past and moves on, she manages to get revenge on a few people that had previously hurt her.