The former lead guitarist of The Runaways - heavy metal's leading female rocker (Rolling Stone) - opens up about the '70s and '80s music scene and her life in this emotionally powerful memoir. Lita Ford lived her dreams, until her life turned into a nightmare. She left home at age sixteen to join the first all-female rock group, the Runaways - a band whose legend was sealed by the 2010 hit movie starring Kristen Stewart and Dakota Fanning - and went on to become the first woman hard rock guitarist, a star who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first Top Ten hit, a bare-ass, leather-clad sexy babe whose hair was bigger and guitar licks were hotter than any of the guys. She is also the mother of two sons whose harrowing tale of her catastrophic marriage to a metal rocker makes Ike and Tina Turner sound like life at the country club. In the end, Lita's story changes from a music story to a woman's story - a wrenching drama of human bondage and a mother's love, a life-and-death struggle over her own soul. Trapped in a terrifying marriage, systematically stripped of her connections to the outside world, Lita Ford became a slave to her husband's demands, living like a captive. She plotted her escape and her freedom cost her the boys she stayed in the marriage to protect. Her graphic story will horrify readers, but they won't be able to put it down. At ease as a woman in the previously all-male world of rock, Lita shares her male counterparts' directness when it comes to sex, drugs, money or fame. Lita Ford is not only one of music's greatest pioneers, but also one of its fiercest survivors.