Beautiful Nightmare is an inspirational memoir that paints a picture of hope through surviving the trials and tribulations of rape, bulimia, suicide, self-mutilation, drugs and depression. This book chronicles being thrown into the shadows of life's darkness at a young age and prevailing to a life worth living. Jen Michelle embodies an eternal expression of undying gratitude through artistic representation of her experiences as tattoos. Each journey of horror is inked on her skin as a positive symbol of hope to other victims struggling with similar obstacles. The expressions of hope that are inked on these pages and inked on her skin offers readers an optimistic perspective of holding on and never giving up on life.