In her latest book, Karen Truesdell Riehl reveals her life of living in the shadows, beginning with hiding from elementary school bullies, who don't know her battle with dyslexia has kept her from learning to read before the age of ten. Ten years later she enters a home for unwed mothers, hiding her love affair with a married actor, who deserts her before becoming an international film star. She continues to hide her past after marrying a man from a wealthy, socially prominent family, later discovering her husband has been hiding his own secret from her throughout their 17-year marriage. Karen Truesdell Riehl's memoir, in diary form, transports readers back to the days when women were to be seen, but not heard. Women who've lived through the 1950's will recognize the judgmental paternalism of those years. Younger readers will be grateful they don't.