When Sienna fell in love, she embraced her partner’s young daughters, Adele and Nina, with an open heart. But her dream of a happy, blended family was delicate from the start. Unseen by them, a rift was being slowly, methodically carved. As the girls they loved were turned against them, Sienna and her husband faced an impossible choice: hold on or let go?

Told from the unique and often unheard perspective of a stepmother, this memoir is a heart-wrenching account of an unrecognised grief: mourning living children. It chronicles the agony of loving two daughters who are right there, within reach, yet made untouchable by a force that has stolen them from within.

But Hope Is A Gentle Flicker is not merely a story of loss. It is an act of resistance. A tribute to a love that refuses to be extinguished even in the face of rejection, and a beacon for anyone who has endured the pain of parental alienation - one that offers validation, understanding, and the defiant courage to hope again.