Beautiful Prison is a story of family suffering from domestic abuse by a manipulative and abusive father who isolates his family into the wild untamed Idahoan Mountains. The incredible true story portrays the lessons learned through the eyes of childhood emotional neglect from an emotionally immature parent and how eight siblings who survived an unspeakable childhood found the road back from surviving the forest.
One mother discovers all that's wrong with the spiral of toxic events which led to the ultimate survival of her children and why a meaningful life is not supposed to be this way. Running on empty, she learned how to stop doubting and do what it takes to reverse childhood adversity and promote self healing through self-discovery.
Michael Lechner lived his early years during 1997 to 2001 in the secluded mountains of Idaho. He is a U.S. Navy veteran and the author of Beautiful Prison. Beautiful Prison is the story of Michael's childhood during his four-year isolation in the Idahoan Wilderness.
Michael currently resides in Indiana as an author and programmer at Indiana State University.