Author-Felicia Pinkney shares the tragic inspirational story of her strenght through a life of abuse and challenges in her new autobiography, Living in the Red Zone : "A True Story of a Young Woman's Suvival in the Millinium" A Red Zone is our own powerful,painful destructive path we live in life starting at any point in our lives," Pinkney says. Her Red Zone began during her earily childhood with the abuse at the hands of an immediate family member. Scarred by years of abuse, Pinkney gravitated toward unhealthy relationships in her adult life and became involved in one painful relationship after another. In the meantime, she gave birth to three mentally challenged children." I honestly believe my children were born with special needs because of the abuse I suffered from over a long period of time, "she says.