In her powerful debut book, Untarnished, Donna S. Farrar takes you along on a journey throughout her life. Childhood traumatic experiences negatively shaped and tarnished her identity, which led to a life of rejection, abandonment, pain, and ultimately prison for over five years, beginning at the tender age of 21. Broken, ashamed, and defeated, she mustered up the courage to face her past and closet skeletons by pouring herself out before God and seeking both traditional and nontraditional counseling. The level of transparent throughout her story offers realness, empathy to others with similar experiences, truth, self-awareness, and insightful captions to assist others on their own journeys of healing from childhood traumas or incarceration.