"The Flaws That Bind" tells the story of an idealistic college girl from Iowa who meets an exciting Jamaican inventor with plans to save the world and drops everything to begin a new life with him. What she doesn't expect - and what no woman expects - is that her husband turns out to be a brutal, abusive cheater who threatens to kill her or their children if she tries to escape. "The Flaws That Bind" takes readers inside the lonely terror and psychological trauma that battered women and children endure when there seems to be no safe way out.
Born in the Midwest, author Rebecca Leo has lived on the East and West coasts, as well as in Canada, Australia, Jamaica and the island of St. Croix before returning to the U.S. where she took an administrative job at Boston University. She stayed there until her three children completed school in Cambridge and all graduated from B.U. In the meantime she earned a master's degree and completed the coursework for her doctoral degree. She taught writing at several colleges in the Boston area until moving to Cape Cod with her husband, William. They now live in California where she is an avid tennis player and she continues writing in between doing tutoring, editing and proofreading. Her latest book, a novel, "The Flaws That Bind," is drawn from experiences encountered with the abusive father of her children, and portrays how one woman manages not to become another statistic in the police records of domestic homicide.?Videos