Kiki Stamatiou Writing As Joanna Maharis

Kiki Stamatiou's book Dominica's Inferno was published by PublishAmerica under her pen name Joanna Maharis. It is a fiction novel which deals with the issues of child abuse and domestic violence. Although the book is a work of fiction, the author used her own life as the basis for writing the novel. Dominica's Inferno is available through the internet on the following websites: www.publishamerica.com, www.barnesandnoble.com, and Amazon.com.

Kiki Stamatiou is a graduate of Mattawan High School (Class of 1988), Kalamazoo Valley Community College (Class of 1990) where she received an Associates degree in the area of liberal arts, and Western Michigan University (Class of 1992) where she received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History with a creative writing emphasis.

Dominica Moore lives in a war zone both at home and at her new school in that she endures cruelty by the hands of her father and also by the hands of her peers at school. She doesn't meet what they consider to be the standards norms of society; their codes of ethics. Instead, Dominica Moore goes against the standard norms of society. Through her endless struggle to be accepted for who and what she is inside, Dominica looks to the Lord for friendship and strength. Warren Moore, Dominica's father, has a beastly personality and runs the household worse that military style. He doesn't allow Dominica or her brothers to have friends over to their home. Dominica loses faith in the Lord as a result of her brother Jake's death. She then finds comfort in realizing her brother Jake has become her guardian angel. It's as if he never left her side.