Sign-In
Cart
Tales From The Trap: A memoir about one woman's descent into madness and her fight to escape the trap
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 6 2026
Pages: 686
Weight: 1.99
Height: 1.51 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Tales From the Trap
A Memoir
People love stories about survival. They don't always want to hear what survival actually costs.
Melissa MacMillan never expected to become an addict. She never expected to lose her children, survive human trafficking, be incarcerated, or spend years believing she was beyond saving.
But addiction doesn't begin with drugs.
It begins with pain.
Tales From the Trap is an unflinching memoir of trauma, domestic violence, exploitation, motherhood, homelessness, incarceration, and the devastating grip of addiction. It is also a story of accountability-not one that excuses the past, but one that faces it head-on.
With raw honesty, Melissa takes readers inside the realities of life on the streets, the impossible choices made in survival, and the long, often painful journey back to herself. Through every loss, every relapse, every courtroom, every shelter, and every heartbreak, one truth remained: recovery was always possible.
Today, Melissa is a recovery advocate, peer support worker, public speaker, and mother who uses her lived experience to challenge stigma and prove that people are more than the worst thing they've ever done.
Powerful, heartbreaking, and ultimately hopeful, Tales From the Trap is more than a memoir.
It's a testament to resilience, redemption, and the extraordinary courage it takes to come home to yourself.
Also in
Biographies General
Bluesland: Portraits of Thirteen Major American Blues Masters
Pete Welding (ED.)
Toby Byron (ED.)
Hardcover
Karl Popper - The Formative Years, 1902 1945: Politics and Philosophy in Interwar Vienna
Hacohen, Malachi Haim
Hardcover
The Children of Athena: Greek Intellectuals in the Age of Rome: 150 Bc0-400 AD
Freeman, Charles
Hardcover
Make It a Double: From Wretched to Wondrous: Tales of One Woman's Lifelong Discovery of Whisky
Sackier, Shelley
Hardcover
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
Isaacson, Walter
Hardcover
An Enemy Such as This: Larry Casuse and the Fight for Native Liberation in One Family on Two Continents Over Three Centuries
Correia, David
Hardcover
Agents of Chaos: Thomas King Forçade, High Times, and the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Howe, Sean
Hardcover
Better Living Through Birding: Notes from a Black Man in the Natural World
Cooper, Christian
Hardcover
The Secret Life of the Savoy: Glamour and Intrigue at the World's Most Famous Hotel
Williams, Olivia
Paperback
The Badger: The Life of Bernard Hinault and the Legacy of French Cycling
Fotheringham, William
Paperback
Florence Kelley and the Nation's Work: The Rise of Womens Political Culture, 1830-1900
Sklar, Kathryn Kish
Paperback
The Devil's Diary: Alfred Rosenberg and the Stolen Secrets of the Third Reich
Wittman, Robert K.
Kinney, David
Paperback
A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II
Purnell, Sonia
Hardcover
Living with a Wild God: A Nonbeliever's Search for the Truth about Everything
Ehrenreich, Barbara
Paperback
Seafaring Women: Adventures of Pirate Queens, Female Stowaways, and Sailors' Wives
Cordingly, David
Paperback
The Butcher, the Embezzler, and the Fall Guy: A Family Memoir of Scandal and Greed in the Meat Industry
Cherington, Gretchen
Paperback
My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
Dessa Wander
Hardcover
Nobody's Girl: A Memoir of Surviving Abuse and Fighting for Justice
Giuffre, Virginia Roberts
Hardcover
How to Be Okay When Nothing Is Okay: Tips and Tricks That Kept Me Alive, Happy, and Creative in Spite of Myself
Lawson, Jenny
Hardcover
Family of Spies: A World War II Story of Nazi Espionage, Betrayal, and the Secret History Behind Pearl Harbor
Kuehn, Christine
Hardcover
Dangerous, Dirty, Violent, and Young: A Fugitive Family in the Revolutionary Underground
Dohrn, Zayd Ayers
Hardcover
A Walk in the Park: The True Story of a Spectacular Misadventure in the Grand Canyon
Fedarko, Kevin
Paperback
Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast
Colloff, Pamela
Hardcover