True Tales From Women's Jail: Diary of a Female Prisoner

Kristen Pierce was an innocent, fun-loving 22-year-old recent college graduate living the good life in sunny Orange County, California; but misplaced trust in a deviant, drug-running boyfriend led her into a dark corner of the O.C. underworld known as Orange County Jail.

There she met the extraordinarily-troubled Amanda Benson, who shot her husband to death while he was handcuffed naked to their bed; the petite, savvy and wealthy Lisa Peng, who stabbed her husband’s mistress to death and smothered their love child in a brutal attack; friendly but rageful prostitute Whitney Millano, whose mother sold her for drugs when she was two and whose father then decapitated her mother; and Tracy Russell, arrested for bestiality after twice forcing sex upon her neighbor’s male dog. These and other complex and fascinating women come to life on the pages of TRUE TALES FROM WOMEN'S JAIL, a factual account of author Kristen Pierce’s two years behind bars in Orange County, California.

(Some names, but not all, have been changed)