Ghosts in the Bloodline

This is not a story wrapped in redemption tropes or easy resolutions. Ghosts in the Bloodline is Michelle Briggs's uncompromising account of surviving trafficking, domestic violence, sexual assault, and systemic failure-while also living with a degenerative muscle disease that shaped her body from birth. From the shadows of a devout Catholic household to the streets where she was treated as disposable, Briggs documents what it means to endure when no one is watching and no institution comes to save you.

Written with clarity, compassion, and hard-earned insight, this memoir centers the lived reality of survival rather than spectacle. It speaks directly to readers who know what it means to carry trauma in the body, to grieve the selves that never got to exist, and to keep moving anyway. Ghosts in the Bloodline insists that survival is not silence-and that telling the truth is its own form of justice.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Blue Cactus Press
Published: 09/28/2026
ISBN: 9781967633050
Pages: 164
Weight: 0.49lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.45d