"A Life Without Serenity," is the story of a young woman who was born to an Appalachian world of a dead father at the age of one and a mother seeking refuge in the arms of other men. Serenity Anastasia Wells endured more loss than any other human being needed to. She grew up quickly, robbed from childhood innocence and teenage dreams. The death of her true love Mattie, throws her into the arms of a boy, trapped in a man's body. John Wayne Matthews was not a cowboy, but a nightmare. This nightmare would last half her lifetime and would cause her more pain than the deaths of her best friend and baby girl.