TERRIBLE TIMES is a novel depicting the story of a young mother and her three small children, struggling to escape from a life of homelessness and an abusive husband. Cindy resolves to do anything she can to protect her “babies” from those who would hurt them. In their most desperate hour, she and her children, all under the age of six, linger in a grocery store parking lot as night falls. Penniless and hungry, they meet a teenage boy, or perhaps he was an angel, one who would give them everything he had, and more, to save their family. To the kids, Angela, Terri, and little Mikey, he would become their “New Daddy”. It was not the end of the terrible times for them, but just the beginning…