Eva Summerhill lives in a cabin the mountains of Utah with an old Jack Russell Terrier and a mean rescue cat, named Eva. She borrowed the cat's name and her tenacity to write this difficult, honest memoir. In pouring her soul into searching for answers to help her addicted son, Eva started journaling. She started looking at those writings, along with letters and other correspondence, and decided that a compilation of these works might give suffering parents some insight, and spare them some of the crushing pain. Before she became and "accidental" writer, Eva had done everything from general contracting to teaching music, and a few random things in between. When she isn't working on recovery advocacy within her family and community, she is passionate about playing outside, gardening, cooking, painting, working on her cabin, and trekking in Europe. She loves spending time with her two wonderful sons and extended family.