Script of Life: The Woman Who Smokes in the Dark

"She learned to read a
room before she ever
learned to trust one."
Jade Calloway was raised on a script she
never auditioned for: good daughter, good
wife, good woman of God. She learned it well
— well enough to marry a man her father
chose before she'd chosen him, well enough
to sign a letter she didn't believe, well
enough to smile through a workplace that
punished her for telling the truth.
Script of Life follows Jade from a dinner
table in rural Jamaica to a hospital bed she
couldn't get back to in time - through two
marriages, a courtroom that asked who struck
first over twenty documented bite wounds,
and a toxic-workplace fight that nearly cost
her everything - as she learns the
difference between the parts other people
wrote for her and the life she's finally
ready to write herself.
Raw, unflinching, and ultimately hopeful,
this is a call to every survivor to pick the
pen back up.
EpicJade (Shaleen Ebanks) is a Caymanian content creator,
certified abuse and counselling professional, and advocate
for survivors of Battered Woman Syndrome. Script of Life
is her first novel.
SCRIPT OF LIFE
THE WOMAN WHO SMOKES IN THE DARK
a novel
EPICJADE
(Shaleen Ebanks)