PRETTY POISON : JAHARI'S STORY

Some girls learn how to survive. Jahari learned how to become untouchable.

Jahari has spent her entire life building a woman nobody could break.

Born and raised in Newark, New Jersey, Jahari learns early that love can disappear, people can leave, and vulnerability can become a weakness. Moving through foster care, childhood trauma, adolescence, and adulthood, she develops a powerful survival instinct: never let anyone see how badly you need them.

Beauty becomes her armor.

Confidence becomes her performance.

Control becomes her protection.

And being wanted becomes proof that she is finally safe.

As Jahari grows into a beautiful, ambitious woman and eventually earns a badge, the life she built begins to look like everything she once dreamed of. But beneath the polished appearance is a woman still carrying the frightened little girl she never learned how to comfort.

Her relationships become complicated. Her need to be chosen becomes consuming. Love becomes tangled with control, betrayal, and fear. The same survival strategies that once protected Jahari begin hurting the people around her—including the people she claims to love.

When her marriage collapses and her choices finally force her to confront the consequences of her actions, Jahari can no longer hide behind her beauty, her career, her reputation, or her past.

She has to sit with the hardest question of her life:

Who is she when survival is no longer enough?

Pretty Poison is an intimate, emotionally charged story about trauma, beauty, love, abandonment, accountability, healing, and the complicated journey of becoming the woman you were always meant to be.

Because understanding where someone comes from does not erase what they have done.

And sometimes the person you spend your entire life trying to protect is yourself.

PRETTY POISON: JAHARI’S STORY

A story of pain, power, survival, accountability, and purpose.

Published by NU NU PUBLISHING.