Before domestic violence hot lines and safe houses were widespread, June Briand shot four bullets into her husband’s head and was sentenced to fifteen years to life. This is the shocking true story of survival—and the intense bond June shared with her pathologically violent husband, a monster who physically and sexually tortured, degraded and dominated her so relentlessly that she refused to believe he was dead even after she killed him. What kind of woman would slay her own husband? What kind of man would drive her to do it? Why didn’t she just leave him? Based on hundreds of hours interviewing June Briand, speaking with her lawyers, and poring over countless pages of court transcripts, police and hospital records, and interviews with virtually every key person involved with this case, the author explores those difficult questions while exposing the twisted dynamics of a relationship that enslaves a woman—and drives her to kill the beast she loved when she was finally out of hope, out of time, and out of her mind. At once terrifying and maddening, heartrending and ultimately exhilarating—including an unforgettable glimpse inside a maximum security prison—THE BEAST I LOVED is a book you won’t soon forget.

1. 7 Facts About
Domestic And
Dating Violence
READ ‘THE BEAST I LOVED’, THE TRUE
STORY OF A RELATIONSHIP THAT
ENSLAVES A WOMAN—AND DRIVES HER
TO KILL THE BEAST SHE LOVED
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2. 85% of domestic violence
victims are women.
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3. As many as 324,000
women each year
experience intimate
partner violence during
their pregnancy.
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4. Every 9 seconds in
the US a woman is
assaulted or
beaten.
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5. More than 200,000 phone
calls are placed to
domestic violence hotlines
every year.
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6. Boys who witness domestic
violence are 2 times as likely
to abuse their own partners
and children when they
become adults.
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7. Three to four million
women in the United States
are beaten in their homes
each year by their
husbands, ex-husbands, or
male lovers.
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8. 20 people are abused by an
intimate partner every minute,
adding up to 10 million each
year.
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9. If you are suffering from domestic abuse, or know
someone that is, get help today:
National Domestic Violence Hotline - 1-800-799-7233 (or TTY 1
800 787-3224)
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence (NCADV) -
www.ncadv.org
American Bar Association Commission
on Domestic & Sexual Violence -
https://www.futureswithoutviolence.org

10. Read ‘THE BEAST I LOVED’, THE
TRUE STORY of a relationship
that enslaves a woman—and
drives her to kill the beast she
loved.
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