To Hell and Back is the story of Helen Waters, who is enviable by all outward appearances: luxurious home in London, expensive cars, designer clothes, a loving daughter named Louise and a husband who seems to be sensitive and caring. But looks can deceive and as Mark pulls the curtain, he pulls Helen close, too close. His paranoid delusions fuel outraged fits of violence and when Helen realises that she is being quickly swept away in a progressively rising torrent of brutality with no relief in sight, it becomes apparent that she is going to lose more than her dignity and self-respect. She s going to lose her life if she doesn t escape. Helen and Louise settle in a small village in the Scottish highlands where they find peace and stability for the first time in sixteen years. And for the first time in her life Helen genuinely falls in love with a man, Jerry Burns, who loves her back without wanting to control and manipulate her. Unfortunately their bliss doesn t last long as Helen s dark past finally