Books like Haunted memories by Perry L. Draper

After her disfigured mother dies, Barrie Watson relocates to her aunt’s South Carolina plantation, where an ancient spirit curses one of the island’s founding families and bestows supernaturally compelling gifts on the others.

The Wounded Heart offers a candid, faith‑centered exploration of child sexual abuse, focusing on the emotional toll and spiritual healing for victims and their Christian communities.

A comprehensive, compassionate guide offering strategies, support, and hope for women who have survived child sexual abuse, drawing on expert insight and first‑person narratives.

Prequel to the Bone Island Trilogy, this novel follows 19th‑century privateer Bartholomew Miller as he settles on Florida’s Bone Island, only to face enemies who unleash a centuries‑long curse.

A candid, research‑based memoir that unpacks maternal depression, offering insight, hope, and practical guidance for mothers navigating this challenging illness.

The first book available to comprehensively address the treatment of sexually abused males, Opening the Door: A Treatment Model for Therapy with Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse is based on current research and the carefully evolved techniques of 41 therapists who have developed expertise in working with male survivors of sexual abuse. It discusses the approaches that these therapists bring to their work and presents interventions they have successfully applied in treatment. Written in clear, concise language, Opening the Door features a four-phase treatment model and presents, in detail, the therapeutic tasks necessary for each phase. This model makes clear the significant parallels and distinctions between the processes of therapy and abuse. These processes are discussed throughout the text to ensure that therapy will be a healing, rather than a harmful, experience.

A family therapist shares the stories of 18 women who endured childhood sexual abuse, illustrating that healing is possible at any age and occurs in stages, and offers practical guidance for recognizing and overcoming lingering depression, anxiety, dissociation, and chronic shock.