She Locked Me In Basements And Called It Love Called It Training

Lily was always scared. Where her sister Audrey was a fearless prodigy, Lily was restless, soft-spoken, and afraid of the dark, so her mother decided to “cure” her. She called it love. She called it training.
But there is no love in locking a crying child alone in a dark room or in the cruelty that follows, each one a lesson and each one more dangerous than the last. When her parents divorced, Audrey moved in with her father, and Lily was left alone with a woman who mistook punishment for devotion, and a walkie-talkie that would never answer.
For years, Lily endured, the only contact she had ever felt from a stray kitten. But something inside her was changing. The frightened little girl who had cowered over her own shadow was disappearing and was being replaced by something quieter and far more stern. Her mother described it as the height of Lily’s vulnerability. He has no idea that this is the beginning of his reckoning.