Beautiful, Unashamed and Unafraid

 A girl, an island, and an unimaginable secret…

As a young girl growing up in Jamaica, Jozanne Marie’s greatest desire was to reconnect with a missing ancestral link and fulfill her longing for the person she believed could affirm her identity.

Her father.

He had left for America when she was just an infant. After five years on the island with an emotionally unavailable mother and a young grandmother harboring a pocket full of secrets, her father made a triumphant return. Arriving in a white 1980s Volkswagen Beetle, he seemed like a dream come true, and Jozanne believed her paternal protector had finally come back for her. Tragically, the man she had hoped would be her redeemer became her greatest adversary.

utiful is the story of one woman’s courageous spiritual journey toward self-love and healing after enduring a childhood of sexual and physical abus\e.