Once Upon a Lifetime — Ruby Moon-Houldson

As a practicing psychologist and FBI agent, Thia Manning has gained the reputation of top investigator-best of the best. But challenges arise which make Thia second-guess herself as she's cast into a madman's world of pain and illegal gratification. Thia thought she had worked through all the past insecurities in her life once she'd married Colin. But after taking on a child slave ring case, Thia quickly discovers her childhood pain and suffering still haunts her. The hunt is on for the mastermind behind a child slave ring racket, and while becoming more and more enmeshed in her past, Thia falters in her sense of logic and trust in herself. Thia desperately seeks the courage and strength she needs in order to abandon the torments from her past and expel the ghosts which still haunt her. But Thia discovers she must fight through past issues internally while matching wits with those she's pursuing who would visit pain upon innocent children-pain liken to what she had endured as a child. As Thia counsels abused children recovered from child slave houses, their nightmares infiltrate the deepest regions of her own psyche and mesh with the long-hidden pains buried there. How will Thia make it through this new reign of terror which threatens her sanity, her very life? Who can she turn to for strength and guidance as she plunges onward through a nightmare where madmen would turn children into puppets? Once upon a lifetime, Thia had turned to a group of unique heroes and they had guided her through a seemingly endless tempest of childhood nightmares. Where were they now that she needed them once again.her heroes who were More Than Angels?