Sibylline Press to Release These Broken Roads by Donna Marie Hayes
(Grass Valley, CA) – Sibylline Press is honored to announce the upcoming release of These Broken Roads by Donna Marie Hayes. In this gripping memoir, Hayes recounts the story of her impoverished Jamaican childhood and eventual immigration to the United States at 14. She weathers hardships, including a strict church upbringing, family abandonment, and marriages fused with domestic violence. Then she breaks free as a single mother.
A decade later, Donna’s career is soaring on Wall Street and she is starring in her own one woman show off Broadway. Yet, at the peak of her triumph, she is scammed and robbed of her life’s savings by the “love of her life” who she meets on an online dating site. The mastermind was not the usual faceless online fraudster, hiding behind a computer screen in a faraway land; rather, he slept beside her for a year and a half, pretending to be the love of her life.
This is the story of how that woman rose yet again to find her power, making the scam and her choice of such a man the last run along the broken roads of her past.
About Donna Marie Hayes: New York City resident and performer Donna Marie Hayes is a SAG-AFTRA actress and cabaret singer who has been featured on the Dr. Oz Show (Defy Your Age), Orange Is the New Black (Netflix), Black Girls Rock (BET), Celebrity Ghost Stories (Biography Channel) and other New York City Off-Broadway and TV productions. Most recently, she was cast in her first regular role in a TV series, Miss Education, set to debut soon. Her corporate life includes serving as a senior human resources professional in the financial services industry. As an ICF-certified coach, she helps women shed victimhood for empowerment.
THESE BROKEN ROADS by Donna Marie Hayes | 10-3-2023 | Tradepaper | ISBN: 978-1-7367954-4-6
Memoir | 212 pages | $17
Sibylline Press publishes the work of brilliant women over 50, exclusively. It was founded in 2022 by publishing industry veterans Vicki DeArmon, Julia Park Tracey, Alicia Feltman, and Anna Termine. Sibylline Press is distributed to the trade by Publishers Group West. Sibylline Press takes its name from the Sibylline Books, the ancient writings of wise older women, the Sibyls. More at sibyllinepress.com.
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