Surviving Dirty John My True Story of Love, Lies, and Murder Format: Paperback

<b><i>NATIONAL INDIE EXCELLENCE AWARDS WINNER&nbsp;&mdash; TRUE CRIME</i><br><br>Now that articles, podcasts, newsmagazines, and miniseries have had their sensationalistic say, Debra Newell, the one woman who truly knows what it was like to survive &ldquo;Dirty John&rdquo; Meehan shares the full story&mdash;the reality&mdash;with the world for the first time.</b><br><br>Debra Newell is nothing if not a survivor. By the time she met John Michael Meehan online, she lived through a near-fatal childhood illness, an attempted rape in her 20s, the traumatic death of her sister at the hands of her brother-in-law, four failed marriages, and a litany of dating disasters. But despite those tragedies, she&nbsp; seemed to have it all: adoring children, a successful business, a fabulous penthouse apartment.&nbsp;<br><br>But there was something missing: the blinding, all-consuming love she first read about to occupy her time in her childhood sickbed. And she thought she found it with John Meehan.&nbsp;<br><br>More than a tabloid-ready true-crime expose, Debra&rsquo;s story is one of trauma, denial, and deception. But it is also a relatable, inspirational, and hopeful story of forgiveness and, most of all,&nbsp; love. The lengths to which a woman will go to find&mdash;and keep&mdash;love; the boundaries children and parents cross to protect and save the people they love; the love one must find for oneself;&nbsp; and the ways the illusion of love can be used to manipulate and hurt.&nbsp;<br><br>Told in Debra&rsquo;s words with the help of<i> New York Times </i>bestselling author M. William Phelps, this book is filled with exclusive&nbsp; stories about Debra and her family, previously unpublished&nbsp; photos, and the unvarnished, unapologetic, and unbelievable reality of <i>Surviving Dirty John</i>.