Synopses & Reviews
Love Fraud tells two parallel stories. The first is the outrageous true story of Donna Andersen's marriage to a sociopathic con artist, James Alwyn Montgomery, originally of Sydney, Australia. Montgomery took a quarter-million dollars from her, cheated with at least six women during a two-and-a-half-year relationship, had a child with one of them, and ten days after Andersen left him, married the mother of the child. It was the second time he committed bigamy. The second story is about Andersen's personal spiritual journey. Seeking to understand why her life was ravaged, Andersen developed an ability to channel spiritual guidance, and learned that her soul planned the entire debacle. The object of the exercise was for her to experience and then release the devastating betrayal, so that she could return to wholeness. For people unaware of these human predators, Love Fraud is a stern warning. For people who have tangled with sociopaths, Love Fraud explains why it happens.
About the Author
Donna Andersen is author of Lovefraud.com, a website that teaches people how to recognize and recover from sociopaths. The website launched in 2005, and now averages more than 3,000 visits every day. Readers consider it the most helpful source on the Internet for information about sociopaths. The affiliated Lovefraud Blog has evolved into a healing community for those who have been targeted by these human predators. She posts an article every week. After graduating summa cum laude from Syracuse University with degrees in magazine journalism and psychology, she started her career as the first editor of Atlantic City magazine. In 1983, she founded Donna Andersen Copywriting Inc., a boutique advertising company that produced newsletters, brochures, websites, and other marketing materials. Her writing style is clear and concise, as it is in her new book.