Darkness Was My Candle

An Odyssey of Survival and Grace

Lora DeVore
Karnac Books
360 pages
ISBN: 9781913494490
April 2022

This profound and compelling memoir traces Lora DeVore’s life as a survivor of child abuse, sex trafficking, illegal pharmacological drug research, and institutional abuse. Having experienced such horrifying and traumatic events, how did she survive? And to what purpose? Seeking the resolution to these unanswered questions, Lora’s experiences illuminate and validate the power of love and the strength of the indomitable human spirit that lives within each one of us.