Marisa Burke is a top-rated, local anchorwoman at one of the most respected local ABC affiliates in the country. She enjoys celebrity status, six-figure salaries, a gorgeous home, and beautiful family.
But rather than reporting the news, Marisa suddenly becomes the subject of it when her husband, an admired educator, the father of her two young girls, and the man she truly believed was her loving soulmate, was arrested for unlawful sexual relationships with underage boys. What was even more excruciating, Marisa was forced to endure the shame and embarrassment of anchoring the same newscasts in which the personally gut-wrenching news stories about her husband's charges were reported.
Marisa Burke's shocking memoir, Just Checking Scores reveals what happens when a person at the top is brought down by public humiliation into a world of deep despair and what Burke did to channel her suffering and anguish into defiance and strength.
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"A top-rated, local newswoman, Marisa Burke works for a local ABC affiliate. She makes a 6-figure salary and has celebrity status throughout the town and lives in a gorgeous home. Thanks to her husband, instead of reporting the news, she one day becomes the subject of it. As it turns out, her husband, an admired educator and father of their two young girls, had been arrested for unlawful sexual relationships with underage boys. And if that wasn't enough, Marisa was forced to endure the shame and embarrassment of anchoring the same newscasts in which the personally gut-wrenching news stories about her husband's charges were reported. Burke's shocking memoir reveals what happens when a person at the top is brought down by public humiliation into a world of deep despair and what she did to channel her suffering and anguish into defiance and strength."
— JM (5 out of 5 stars)
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