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A Story of Hope and Recovery
Prospecta Press
March 2011
On Sale: March 8, 2011
224 pages
ISBN: 1935212435
EAN: 9781935212430
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
Lauren Book, now 25, was 11 years old when her new nanny,
Waldina Flores, joined the family. For the next six years
Lauren endured daily sexual and physical abuse. “I was a
people pleaser,” she says. “I was beaten every day…Waldy was
very smart, like all predators are. She hit me and bruised
me where my parents wouldn’t look. When you are 13 and 14
parents never look at their children’s stomachs or lower
backs or butts or upper thighs.” Lauren is the oldest of three children; her father, Ron
Book, is a prominent Florida attorney and lobbyist. In 2002,
after being encouraged by her boyfriend, Lauren confessed to
her therapist, who in turn called her parents. Her father
fired Flores. She fled to Oklahoma and was arrested one
month later while coaching a 10-year-old girls’ soccer team.
While in prison, Flores wrote love letters to Lauren asking
for money and ultimately was sentenced to another 10 years
on top of the initial 15 years. Since then, Lauren and her father have successfully mounted
a legislative onslaught against predators; the many laws
they are responsible for include the right to get 48-hour
access to predators’ HIV test results, a ban on molesters
from ever contacting their victims or families, passed
legislation to create a statewide network of sexual assault
treatment centers, and the controversial act that barred
predators from living 2500 feet from public places where
children gather such as schools, parks, and playgrounds. Lauren’s memoir is a book about hope in the face of extreme
adversity. While it deals with a tremendously sensitive and
“dark” subject, the hope that it delivers to readers carries
an everlasting positive impact. Her story will empower
readers to address abuse issues in their own lives and move
them to understand the resulting deep emotional matrix that
results from abuse and the incredible power of an
individual’s ability to recover and embrace life.
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