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One on Each Side
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Publisher Price: $19.99
Publisher: Nanahenge & Co.
Published: Oct 6 2026
Pages: 366
Weight: 0.84
Height: 0.91 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Why didn't you just leave?
It's the question every survivor of domestic abuse hears―as if leaving were simple. As if love and manipulation didn't become impossibly tangled. As if breaking free from an abusive husband didn't also mean losing the family you'd built your entire life around.
Neely Ellison escaped her emotionally distant mother by marrying into Jeffrey McMahan's loving Southern family. But Jeffrey's devotion slowly transforms into control, and his mother's warmth comes with strings attached. By the time Neely discovers the truth about Jeffrey's past―and realizes that the only thing worse than leaving is staying―she must make impossible choices.
To break free, Neely must dismantle not just her marriage but everything she thought she knew about family. She must escape not just from Jeffrey but from her own understanding of what love should be.
Set against a genteel Southern backdrop during the 1980s and 1990s, One On Each Side is an unflinching exploration of domestic violence in middle-class America, examining why women stay, how trauma bonds form, and what it takes to break free―not just from an abuser, but from the patterns that made you vulnerable in the first place.
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