The Book
She handed over her whole life to him. And he handed back to her a lie that had been brewing for eight years.
The Lioness Within Me is that raw, unflinching memoir of R. Leone’s marital life that destroyed her but also revived her. It starts off simple: a girl aged 18, in a tiny Caribbean island, falls for a bank manager from a well-connected local family, thinking she was forging a life together. But, there was a secret life hidden beneath the distance calls, the marriage, and the two kids, with that secret life being unveiled, everything shattered.
Heartbreak yes but also a complete metamorphosis of a woman. Stranded with two kids and no backup plan for survival, she pieced back her life with a sewing machine worth ten bucks, food from the church collection, and an inner will to not let the betrayal dictate her life. It’s about the point when a woman stops hoping for someone to be her redeemer and discovers that all along, she was the lioness.
