These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman's Story

One woman’s story, every woman’s nightmareDonna Marie Hayes had a fortitude and smarts. She alreadysurvived so much. In this gripping memoir, Hayes recounts the story of herimpoverished Jamaican childhood and eventual immigration to the United Statesat 14. She weathers hardships, including a strict church upbringing, familyabandonment, and marriages fused with domestic violence. Then she breaks freeas a single mother.Decades later, Donna is educated and at the top of her gamein New York City. Her career is soaring on Wall Street and she is starring inher own one-woman show off Broadway. Yet at the peak of her triumph, she isscammed and robbed of her life’s savings by the “love of her life” who shemeets on an online dating site. The mastermind was not the usual facelessonline fraudster, hiding behind a computer screen in a faraway land; rather, heslept beside her for a year and a half, pretending to be the love of her life.This is the story of how that woman rose yet again to findher power, making the scam and her choice of such a man the last run along thebroken roads of her past.