After one of their adopted children was hospitalized following harrowing tales of abuse, her parents, a children's author and her husband, were handed lengthy prison sentences.

Waite writes in the recently-released book she could not come to terms with the reality of her husband’s secret double life, and slowly, she started losing it.

The book offers a raw, unflinching and, at times, darkly humorous account of her life after the sudden death of her husband, Sean, whose passing while away on an international business trip ...