About LOVE and War. By. KATHRYN GARTEN
How do you reclaim a life that was stolen from you?
She has spent years in the shadows of a federal prison cell, silenced by a system that failed her and a man who betrayed her. When the gates finally open, she walks out with nothing but her dignity and a burning resolve to take back what is rightfully hers. While she endured her sentence, her ex-husband was building an empire on the ruins of their marriage. Now remarried and shielded by a life of luxury, he believes his past deceptions are safely buried, but he has underestimated the resilience of the woman who helped build his foundation.
Aided by the formidable legal powerhouse Barbara “Barracuda” Parker, she launches a high-stakes campaign to reopen her divorce and reclaim the assets wrongfully denied to her. What begins as a private legal battle soon erupts into a media sensation dubbed “The Battle of the Sexes.” As the pressure of the investigation mounts, dark family secrets surface, and an unraveling world of status and denial begins to crumble. Between intense legal maneuvers and the struggle to reconnect with her children, she discovers an unexpected path to healing. In a journey from a marginalized prisoner to a champion for the silenced, she finds that the greatest victory isn’t just winning a case, it’s finding the courage to embrace a second chance at life and love.
Love and War is a gripping contemporary drama that explores the intricate web of legal warfare, the weight of past betrayals, and the unbreakable spirit of a woman determined to own her future.
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Print length
160 pages
Language
English
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Publication date
March 21, 2026
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Author Bio:
This Author has seen the world both through rosecolored glasses while visiting the historical locations of Europe and Asia and through the other side the the looking glass while serving a sentence in federal prison. She wanted to make sure her stay in this unique would setting would have purpose although this was her first time incarcerated she wanted to not waste time so she reluctantly became a scribe first trying her hand at poetry her fellow woman inmates called her poetry modern day Psalms. So because the poetry came off well she decided to try her hand at full manuscripts. So her stay before her release and after losing her daughter during covid , her home and her freedom she was released in 2023 with 30 full manus riots and 500 poems. Several years later she has managed as an indie writer produced 7 written novels audiobooks and 18 songs from her poems to create several booktrailers each book trailers carries her songs and narration of her books as well as audiobooks of t h e same title on YouTube. This more a mission for author Garten in her daughter’s memory and for all single women for the Gofundme she has set up and is putting her own royalties into this fund. She now lives with her daughters father and life partner of nearly 40 years and her daughters 2 tuxedo cats in a small quiet area of Lakemary Florida trying to get through her first live booksigning praying it will receive good audiences participation.