Hard Target
$12.99
Nearly half of childhood sexual abuse survivors are sexually assaulted again in adulthood. After any assault, the risk of another climbs sevenfold. These are not statistics anyone talks about. This book changes that.
If you've spent years asking, "Why does this keep happening to me?"-the answer is not what you think. It's not because you're broken. It's because trauma rewired your nervous system before you were old enough to know it was happening.
Hard Target is the book Ali needed at nineteen, drugged and dissociating behind a locked door, and again at twenty-three, gripping a steering wheel and whispering "what is wrong with me" to a rearview mirror that had no answers. Part memoir, part neuroscience, part field guide for survival, it explains why the pattern repeats and delivers the evidence-based tools that finally stopped it.
The freeze response is not a failure. The cycle is not your fate. And the brain that learned these patterns can unlearn them. You are not broken. You are one book away from becoming a hard target.