An emotional women’s fiction novel about parental alienation, coercive control, motherhood and one woman’s fight to reclaim her life.

She fought for freedom; now she must fight for her children.

Two years after leaving her dominating ex-husband, nurse Cate Williams has built a new life with her children, Ava and Logan. It isn’t easy, but they’re together, and for Cate that is everything.

Driving home on a rainy night after her shift, Cate’s car skids in the rain and she hits a motorcyclist, seriously injuring him. She wakes up in Emergency, relieved to discover her children have been collected from the sitter by their father and are safe.

But Nick refuses to bring them home, and within weeks Cate receives a letter from the kids declaring their intention to remain in the full-time custody of their father.

All her efforts to communicate with her children are blocked.

How did her life come to this?

Desperate to prove to Ava and Logan that their father has twisted the truth, Cate travels to the town where they now live with Nick and his new partner, a carbon copy of her younger self. She’s prepared to risk everything to see her children again, but how far will she go to take back control of her life?

Because You’re Mine is a standalone novel in The Homecoming Collection – a powerful women’s fiction story about maternal love, parental alienation, coercive control and finding the courage to take back your life.