Ultimate Cruelty

Sixteen-year-old Emilie was a beautiful girl caught up in a relationship with the wrong guy. She held onto the dream that life would be everything she thought it would be until one day the dream came crashing down on her and her mother. In Ultimate Cruelty, Marie Paris, Emilie’s mother, narrates her daughter’s story.

Paris a single mother, shares how she was caught off guard when her young daughter went missing , and she tells of the frantic search that ensued and the outcome no one expected. Paris writes about the media frenzy, the injustice, the breakdown of her family, and the aftermath surrounding Emilie’s disappearance. Ultimate Cruelty discusses the thoughts, memories, and emotions of the family’s nightmare. It chronicles each milestone Paris encountered and overcame in this heart-wrenching story.

Ultimate Cruelty shares one mother’s heart-wrenching story as she journeys through her sixteen-year-old daughter’s disappearance and eventual death, reflecting on her daughter’s life and the tragedy itself.