At times funny, at others heartbreaking but always intensely honest, Melody's story of years of abuse as a child and as an adult is both gripping and emotional. The pressure of being a single mom and having thirty-four different personalities, each one with their own memories, secrets, talents, and triggers has left her searching for answers as to why her, and what does she do now? It seems fitting that the troops tell their own secrets. "What is life like as a Multiple? Is it a life, or is it thirty-four different personalities all trying to survive and save just one life? Who's saying we have to be one? Why is it that the people in my head bother you so much?"