These Broken Roads: Scammed and Vindicated, One Woman’s Story

by Donna Marie Hayes

2023 · Paperback, eBook

After an impoverished Jamaican childhood, immigration at fourteen, and years of abuse, Donna Marie Hayes built a Wall Street career and an off-Broadway show — then lost her savings to the ‘love of her life.’ A memoir of being scammed, and of reclaiming her power.

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