Diane Martin

Peaches Diane Martin

This ain't no Cinderella story... Families are a construct, created by God, that are supposed to provide its members with three basic things: love, happiness, and security. It is not hard to believe that if our basic needs are met then often times, we will grow into well-rounded happy individuals who will love ourselves and those around us. But often times, there is a forfeiture in our roles and responsibilities to one another that causes those needs to go unfulfilled. As a result, love is replaced with pain, happiness with sadness, and security with fear. Peaches knows that world all too well. Born to two of the most loving parents in the world, she couldn't escape the clutches of their evil offspring. Twins, Regan and Raven, and Ivy the middle child, were her older sisters - determined from the very beginning, to erase her existence. In spite of all of their attempts, she breaks the chains to start life anew only to find that no matter how hard she tries, they will never let her go. In this story, we learn that "blood" is not the only thing that is holding this family together.