One of the best-kept secrets of police services is that the men and women who have dedicated their lives to serving and protecting the public are falling apart at the seams. But often they are often too scared or too broken to tell their stories. Young RCMP officer Deanna Lennox courageously ends the silence around the high incidence of occupational stress among first responders, and chronicles the events that eventually pushed her mind, body and spirit to the breaking point. At a time when there seems to be a new scandal involving the RCMP every few weeks, Deanna Schmaltz's story is a courageous portrayal of life in the force as seen through the eyes of a young woman who entered it with the highest ideals and will leave it next spring having been broken and traumatized. The unusual twist in her story is not only found in the gripping portrayals of high-speed car chases, drug busts, or undercover work as a prostitute and how these experiences effected her, but in...