What power is great enough to overcome abusive parents who will do anything in their power to keep a child down?

How can one turn from a childhood of tragedy to a life of triumph? Only God's power could save author Mary Ann Robles from her painful childhood as he performed a miracle in Brooklyn. After struggling to help raise seven younger siblings, God helped Mary Ann to transform her experiences From Perils to Pearls. A heartbreaking narrative of overcoming the harshest conditions, From Perils to Pearls proves a child coming from virtually nothing can grow to have the most important thing: God's grace.

Author Mary Ann Robles is active in ministry through her church and working with women in the community, as well as having worked as a navy family ombudsman to help guide, inform, and encourage navy families while service men and women were deployed overseas. She has also served as a director for a coalition against domestic violence in Virginia and was instrumental through her work there to help establish the first domestic abuse shelter for women and their children. Mary Ann and her husband, Waldy, currently reside in Yulee, Florida, where they enjoy their four children and three granddaughters.

--Mary Ann Robles

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