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A memoir unlike any other that explores addiction, crime, and redemption. The true story of one correctional officer's life behind bars-the ones at work and the ones she built herself. I was a bad mother, a bad daughter, a bad wife, a bad friend. Boozed out and tired, with no dreams and no future. But I was a good officer. Sara Lunsford helped cage the worst of the worst, from serial killers to sex criminals-the kinds of people who go down in true crime history. At the end of every day, when she walked out the prison gate, she had to try to shed the horrors she witnessed. But the darkness invaded every part of her life, no matter how much she tried to drown herself in a liquor bottle. She couldn't hide from the things that hurt her, the things that made her bleed, the things that still rise up in the dark and choke her. With a magnetic, raw voice that you won't soon forget, Sweet Hell on Fire grabs you by the throat and doesn't let go. Perfect for nonfiction readers of Tiffany Jenkins' High Achiever and Piper Kerman's Orange is the New Black, it's a hardscrabble climb from rock bottom to the new ground of a woman who understands the meaning of sacrifice, the joy of redemption, and the quiet haven to be found in hope.

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A fascinating, frightening lens into a simmering underworld most of us would rather not think about.<br> - Shelf Awareness

If you read one memoir this winter, make it 'Sweet Hell on Fire. - Stevens Point Journal A blunt, angry, and very important book. - Christian Science Monitor Sara Lunsford romances readers with softness sometimes, making us chuckle, making us double-take. Then she grabs us and shakes hard, until we can't do anything but gasp. ... 'Sweet Hell on Fire' is a book to get your hands on. - Bookworm Sez, Best Book of 2012 - Bookworm Sez A fascinating, frightening lens into a simmering underworld most of us would rather not think about. - Shelf Awareness

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SARA LUNSFORD was a segregation officer at an all-male maximum security facility, and promoted to the rank of sergeant before leaving corrections to pursue a full-time writing career. Sara's fiction has been published under pseudonyms in magazines, anthologies and novel-length work. She lives in Kansas.

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