Life After Darkness: Finding Healing and Happiness After the Cleveland Kidnappings

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Michelle Knight-now known as Lily Rose Lee-captured the world's attention May 2013, when she and fellow kidnapping victims Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus were found and freed after years of imprisonment and torture. Michelle was a young single mother when she was kidnapped by a Cleveland school bus driver named Ariel Castro. Her story of the horrors she endured for more than a decade afterward, and the hope she sustained, became the #1 New York Times bestseller Finding Me in 2014. In her second book-to be published on the fifth anniversary of her escape-she answers the question: How do you heal after great tragedy? Organized thematically (finding hope, finding friendship, finding love), Michelle shares her experience of rebuilding her life, and offers her thoughts on how anyone who has suffered greatly can learn to find new meaning and purpose.

Michelle Knight, now known as Lillian Rose Lee, is an artist, author, speaker, and a survivor living in Cleveland, Ohio. Lily is passionate about inspiring others and now spends most of her time helping animals and volunteering at local shelters, creating art, and advocating for change to ensure others are safe from the experience she has overcome.

Praise for Michelle Knight and Finding Me: An inspiring story, and for anyone wanting hope after suffering, a guidebook to finding a meaningful life.--Gambit Magazine Her story is beautiful. It is inspiring. I can tell you, it is a must-read. --Dr. Phil McGraw In the 12 years of doing the 'Dr. Phil' show, no one has changed me like Michelle Knight and her story of survival.--Dr. Phil McGraw The story of an incredibly brave and resilient young woman and of a spirit that refused to be crushed, even through the worst time. --The Daily Mail