title: In My Defense: An Unlikely Romance, a Deadly Gunshot, and a Young Widow's Road to Redemption
author: Leigh Ann Bryant
description: Leigh Ann Bryant, an award-winning writer, survived her marriage to an abusive man, whom she ultimately killed in self-defense. She was jailed and stood trial for capital murder. Leigh Ann has worked as a registered nurse in several areas of specialty, and currently works as an acute-care dialysis nurse. She speaks at prisons throughout the US telling her riveting story, and lives with her husband and son in the Dallas-Fort Worth area.<br /> <br />
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  ## Hissy Fit
  
  
  #### Mary Kay Andrews
  
  
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  Dedicated with love to Jeanne M. Trocheck,
  
  
  who is truly the world’s best sister-in-law.
  
  
  “Thank God, Honey.”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Madison, Georgia, is a very real, and very charming, town, but this is a work
  of fiction, and all the characters, incidents, and dialogues in this novel are
  products of the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any
  resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## Contents
  
  
  [1](9780061746826_chapter_01.html#ch_1) If it had not been for my fiance’s
  alcoholic cousin…
  
  
  [2](9780061746826_chapter_02.html#ch_2) Paige darted around to the far side of
  the table,…
  
  
  [3](9780061746826_chapter_03.html#ch_3) I’d never seen this guy before. He
  certainly wasn’t from…
  
  
  [4](9780061746826_chapter_04.html#ch_4) Gloria had a key to my apartment, and
  she never…
  
  
  [5](97800617468