Nominated for the 2025 Kirkus Prize and chosen for Maria Shriver's 2025 Summer Reads, MAYA BLUE A Memoir of Survival, is an inspiring, suspenseful, fast-paced memoir that reads like a thriller. It is Working Girl meets Taken, and in the end, Brenda Coffee is the last one standing. At twenty-one, Brenda Coffee did almost anything her charismatic, powerful older husband wanted. Regardless of whether it was dangerous, adventurous, sexual, or illegal, she wanted to be the one woman he couldn’t live without. Brenda Coffee is the creator of two Top 10 websites, including 1010ParkPlace.com, home to her popular BRENDA’S BLOG.