In the highly anticipated sequel to her New York Times bestseller Etched in Sand, Regina Calcaterra pairs with her youngest sister Rosie to tell Rosie’s harrowing, yet ultimately triumphant, story of childhood abuse and survival.

They were five kids with five different fathers and an alcoholic mother who left these to fend for themselves for weeks at a time. Yet through it all they had each other. Rosie, the youngest, is definitely fawned over and shielded by her older sister, Regina. Their mom, Cookie, about Gal Unbroken: A Sister’s Harrowing Story of Survival from The Streets of Long Island towards the Farms of Idaho blows in and out of their lives “like a hurricane, blind and uncaring to everything in her route.”

However when Regina emancipates herself as a minor and escapes, her siblings are separated. So that as Rosie discovers after Cookie kidnaps her from foster care, the one thing worse than being forgotten by her mom is surviving in Cookie’s existence. Beaten physically, abused emotionally, and pressured to labor on the plantation where Cookie settles in Idaho, Rosie refuses to surrender. Like her sister Regina, Rosie comes with an unfathomable power when confronted with unimaginable hardship-enough to propel her out of Idaho and out of the nightmare.

Filled up with maturity and grace, Rosie’s memoir proceeds the convincing story begun in Etched in Sand-a shocking yet profoundly moving testament to sisterhood and indomitable courage.