Held Hostage in America's Heartland: Five Years in Southwest Missouri (English Edition) [Kindle-editie] beoordelingen het boek quotes

The tragic and inspiring true story of an American dream turned nightmare when a California family relocates to a small town in the southwest Missouri Ozarks at the height of the real estate boom in 2006.A simple purchase of a new home rapidly deteriorates into one huge mistake as this family's once productive lives rapidly deteriorate into chaos as they encounter prejudice, corruption, greed, and jealousy. Southwest Missouri is a place time has forgotten, where social rules and traditions supersede the rule of law, and outsiders are not wanted. In a desperate effort to protect her family and their life savings from the antiquated lifestyle of the Ozark subculture, at the age of 49, Ms. Lei enrolls in college determined to educate herself, and clean-up the biggest mistake of her life. Through numerous tragedies and betrayals, including by her Ozark attorneys, Ms. Lei challenges the Missouri Real Estate Commission, the local subculture, and ultimately prepares the legal showdown herself in this chronicle of an American dream turned nightmare.