My name is Trona Muse Swafford, I’m a married, disabled woman with a huge story to tell. I grew up all over the United States. My family never stayed in one place exceptionally long, so we moved around a lot from Missouri, where I was born to the hills of Tennessee, Kentucky, and Illinois. Where I spent most of my teens until I was in my thirties. I have been married 4 times, two of which were very abusive.
I married my first time at the age of seventeen to a man who thought I was his punching bag. He even put me in the hospital twice. We had three children together, two girls and one boy, along with my oldest son, who I adopted as an infant each one three years apart. Then I married again this time to a man worse than the first, who promised the moon but only kept me in a living nightmare. Until I escaped him with the clothes off my back, my ailing mother and children. Who was eventually taken from me. My daughters were adopted to another family and my son had to live with my abusive ex-husband until my now-husband, and I took custody of him as a teenage boy. I now have all my children back in my life as well as my husband's four children. But that’s for another story to tell.
I have survived drug addiction to sexual abuse as a child, and a lifestyle most would find outrageous as a biker's wife. From drugs guns sex and biker rally, I've done them all. Which was with my third husband.
In my working time of life, I have been a stripper that paid my way through college for nursing school. After nursing was over because of an illness I have, I became an over the road truck driver. This is where the love of my life finally came into my life. We have been together now going on sixteen years married fourteen of them. We traveled all over these great lower forty-eight states. Driving from coast to coast North South East and West. From New York to California and back again.
My life has never been easy, but I keep on pushing through. I have a terminal illness now that I fight every day. It seems like that’s all I’ve ever done is fight in one way or another. Whether it is an abusive situation or life in general, I'm still fighting.
This is why I’m writing my books. I wrote one it was a children's book called “the country bunnies and friends.” Only I wasn’t interested in it selling. I wrote it for something that my children and grandchildren would have forever from me.
This Novel Hiding in LA is a testimony of what domestic abuse is and how to overcome it. I do not have some fancy plaque for my wall telling me I can write. What I have are the experiences that I've lived through myself.
I have decided to make a full series of these books. Called the Hell Riders series. In each of my books, there will be something that has either has happened to me or someone close to me, from life to death, being a child all the way until death takes us. We all have a purpose and I believe mine is to tell my tale one book at a time.