Sylvia Night
The Sword Of Love
In The Sword of Love, Kyra Krueger shares her deeply personal journey of surviving emotional abuse and unlearning everything she thought she knew about love. After falling into a toxic relationship at fifteen with a boy who used affection as control, she is forced to confront not only her present trauma but the deep wounds left by a neglectful childhood. This powerful memoir is a story of breaking, healing, and finally finding the strength to forge her own self-worth. It is a raw and inspiring testament to choosing yourself when the world taught you to stay silent.
Sylvia Night
Built from Bruises
In Built from Bruises, Kyra Krueger delivers a powerful, deeply personal memoir about the quiet devastation of growing up with a mother whose love felt conditional, unpredictable, and punishing. Through poignant reflections and unsent letters, Kyra traces her journey from a little girl who learned to shrink herself for survival to a young woman discovering her own voice. This raw and honest story is for anyone who has ever had to parent their parents, who learned to disappear to keep the peace, and who is finally ready to step into the light and realize they were always worth loving.
Sylvia Night
A Thousand Small Cuts
A Thousand Small Cuts is a raw, devastatingly honest memoir-in-verse by Kyra Krueger. Through powerful and poignant poetry, Kyra chronicles her harrowing experience growing up as the primary caretaker for an emotionally abusive, unpredictable mother. Stripped of her childhood and forced to carry the crushing weight of her mother’s pain, Kyra must navigate a quiet warzone at home where survival means silence, invisibility, and hiding her own breaking point. It is a story of profound grief, the struggle to find one’s voice, and the painful journey toward realizing that love shouldn't require you to bleed.