This isn't a love story... This is a story about a relationship void of love. This is about what happens behind closed doors. This is a book of reclamation, a book of growth. This is the story of the women in my life learning how to love themselves. A collection of poems about the stages of a toxic love. Each stage -- Learning, Loving, Breaking and Leaving -- tells her story: from falling out of love with a monster to falling in love with herself.