She was only five years old but determined never to be anyone's victim or live a life of excuses. But with a junkie for a daddy, would a young child's determination be enough?

The Daughter of A Junkie: A True Love Story is a first-hand account of an extraordinary young girl who escapes the ghetto trappings of the underserved and impoverished communities in which she lived. Hellbent on being nobody's victim and with sheer determination, Terrinee Gundy realizes her childhood dream of becoming a lawyer and a judge.

In The Daughter of A Junkie: A True Love Story, Terrinee is shrill and transparent regarding all of the unpredictable dangers she finessed with a junkie for a daddy. She takes you through the slums of the Deep South with near death, appalling experiences that started in kindergarten and continued to "The Promise Land" on the college campus of Clark Atlanta University.

As a memoir romanticizing the unparalleled moments of her family's struggles, Terrinee is unapologetic about her family's ghetto love story. Despite her daddy's drug addiction to crack cocaine for over forty years, she was relentless in defying the odds of a chaotic, dysfunctional environment flooded with drugs, poverty, racism, the police, and an ineffable amount of calamity to reach the highest heights of success in her field.

Like the fictional tales of Dope Fiend by Donald Goins, her story is entertaining, thrilling, yet factual, as well as veracious as recounted through the lens of a highly educated junkie's daughter. Inspiring to anyone who is faced by drug and addiction problems in the home, Terrinee epitomizes the power of a determined woman who focuses on things that she can control versus things that could otherwise control her.

Raw and palpable, The Daughter of A Junkie: A True Love Story is an inspirational memoir about the power of determination in a dysfunctional relationship, perseverance, and the strength of the human spirit.

Chapter 3: "Love and Embrace Black Men"

Chapter 2: "She's Five Years Old

Chapter 1: "The Man, The Junkie"

Foreword

Intro

Opening Credits

Terrinee Gundy is a mom, a sister, an aunt, a friend, a lawyer, a judge and the daughter of a junkie. Terrinee was born and raised in Jacksonville, Florida where her daddy’s drug addiction to crack cocaine wrecked her family and home life resulting later in a move to South Georgia that proved to be equally as challenging. Despite an early life of constant chaos and dysfunction, Terrinee excelled academically becoming her family’s first college graduate. With a degree from Clark Atlanta University, membership in Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., and the desire to change the trajectory of her family’s history, Terrinee set her sights on the law and later earned a juris doctorate from the University of Georgia School of Law. Upon graduation from law school, Terrinee worked as a state and local tax associate for KPMG and Cox Communications, Inc., respectively. On June 10, 2013, Terrinee was appointed to the bench of the Municipal Court of Atlanta. As a working mom, Terrinee resides in Atlanta, Georgia with her daughter, Mia Michelle, and son, Kevin.