The Compliant Cowgirl

A Cautionary Story

by Christa Jan Ryan

In the 1970s, a young woman escapes a difficult past and follows a magnetic man, Lance Laurel III, from the farmland of Long Island to Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What begins as passion and freedom slowly becomes control, dependency and isolation. Drawn from Christa Jan Ryan's own experience, the memoir traces a codependent relationship from the inside, and ends each chapter with practical steps toward recovery.