Running Home: A True Story

March 2020. The world has just shut down. For Natalie, the real nightmare was just beginning.

She escaped the blue house wearing nothing but hospital scrubs — broken, hunted, and running for her life. The police wanted to put her in protective custody. She had other plans.

What followed was a spiral into the underbelly of Minneapolis during the height of COVID-19 — empty streets, locked doors, and nowhere to hide. A chance encounter with a man named Noah pulled her from one danger and dropped her at the edge of another. Drugs. Violence. A shadowy world run by a man named King, where women were currency and loyalty meant nothing.

Running Home is the unfiltered, unflinching account of survival — told with brutal honesty, dark humor, and a voice that refuses to be silenced. This is not a story of a victim. This is a story of a woman who outran, outthought, and outwilled everyone who tried to own her.

Spolier alert: She made it out.

Book One of a memoir series. The next chapter is even darker.