Ruby Vale is a Southern-born writer with a voice forged in silence and sharpened by survival.
After 28 years in a covertly abusive marriage with a man she now recognizes as a covert narcissist, she didn’t just walk away — she burned the bridge and built her own path.
Passionate about telling the truth, her story doesn’t just transport you — it transforms you.
“It’s not the name I was born with.
It’s the name I earned after surviving everything that tried to silence me.”
Ruby Vale is the name she writes under — bold, free, and unapologetic.
But in the book?
She’s Ruby Red — the woman rising from the ashes.
The woman who found her voice inside the fire.
about the memoir
Burning Bridges, Building Paths is part battle cry, part blueprint — for anyone who’s ever stayed too long, believed too much, or loved someone who never truly saw them.
It’s the raw, unflinching story of reclaiming a life from the wreckage of covert narcissistic abuse.
This isn’t the story Ruby was expected to tell.
It’s the one she had to.
about the artwork
She was my first watercolor, drawn in 1988, wrapped in forest tangles.
Even then, I felt she was a self-portrait, though I couldn’t explain why.
Now it makes sense.
She was already carrying the story I hadn’t lived yet.
about nineteen eleven press
Nineteen Eleven Press was created to give stories like this a home—bold, honest, and unapologetically real.
Because sometimes, the only way forward is through fire.
