Cheryle demonstrates how heartbreaking family dysfunction can be, and the love of the mother is palpable throughout, in her new book 538: Murder, Suicide and A Mother’s Love. Cheryle’s book is a faction combining some facts with fiction. Drama is felt throughout this story about family dysfunction, and Lilly, a mother, that hopes and prays that the love for her family will transcend all the sufferings of life. Lilly marries, and she and Aaron are so in love, and as their family grows, so does their happiness. Soon that all changes and Lilly finds that she is caught in the jowls of life and it is keeping a tight rein on her as she suffers one great loss after another. Lilly is resilient however and looks to her God for strength. Her perseverance and never-ending love for her children supplies her the strength to put one foot in front of the other. The drama that occurs within this house seems to never let up and Lilly finds her family being controlled by it all. While Lilly struggles to hold the family together, her youngest child quietly watches and absorbs all the family anxieties. This child struggles to clarify the happenings and leaves behind many diaries affording Lilly an opportunity to see inside a mind that held so much. Lilly works to right the wrongs as she ties up loose ends and finds peace for herself, as well as her children.