This book is this generation's Burning Bed. Barbara Sheehan tells her blood-curling story of how her husband, Raymond, a retired NYPD detective turned wife beating into an art form by utilizing the very tactics he was taught in the police force. While awaiting trial for second degree murder after turning Raymond's gun on him, Sheehan recounts her abusive marriage and opens up a dialogue about the controversial defense known as Battered Woman Syndrome.