Rachel Roy

blood on the walls takes us from tranquil Mediterranean beaches to behind the walls of Maryland’s most notorious reformatory for wayward youth. It shows how the daughter of a high-ranking CIA official was torn from the only home she had ever known and desperately sought in substances the comfort that her closed-off family could not provide. Eventually Trish became a sober, loving, single mother whose job is to help troubled adolescents avoid being swallowed up by the life in which she was once engulfed.