The Scarlet Badge: A Memoir (Paperback)

Author : Hanna S. Martin

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Kindle Direct Publishing
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 31, 2024
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 475 pages
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 979-8991591515

Tropes :

• Bearing the Mark
• Learning to be Seen
• Healing is not Linear
• Weaponized Morality
• Reclamation of Power
• 🌶 Spice Level 2/5

Overview: 

Hanna Martin’s story begins traversing through an unstable childhood full of critical experiences that shaped the world she lived in, turning her from what was once an innocent child into a grown-up villain. Through the rough navigation of neurodivergence, depression, sexual assault, divorce, and abandonment, Hanna’s story is one of turbulence and triumph.

Hanna’s adult life begins when she finds herself accidentally friends with a “sugar daddy” who attempts to groom her to be his head of security for the cult-utopia he was cultivating. Instead, he introduces her to a sheriff in California and begins her career in law enforcement as a deputy sheriff. Hanna leaves her whole life and everyone in it to start over in California and finds herself quickly deep in love affairs, lies, and a hostile work environment. Despite a rough career start, Hanna never quits on her dreams of finding love and starting a family, wanting nothing more than to become a mother. Unfortunately, she instead finds herself in a toxic relationship that spirals out of control, where Hanna sought anyone to save her from the corner she was backed into in all of the wrong places.

Against all odds, Hanna doubles down her bets on herself and takes the risk of leaving her husband to realize that the person meant to save her all along was herself. Risking her career in law enforcement, Hanna voluntarily sent herself to a women’s only in-patient treatment facility to seek help for all the scars she collected throughout her life. Hanna returns to a hostile workplace that forces her to leave law enforcement to continue her healing journey, choosing herself over what she once thought she wanted to be. Along the rocky road of figuring out everything there is to life with no blueprint, Hanna finds love and support that actualizes her dream life. With the newfound partnership and support, Hanna makes history as the first person in the United States to pursue a lawsuit against a court of law for gender discrimination.