Living Like a Runaway: A Memoir

Wielding her signature black guitar, Lita Ford shredded the stereotypes of female musicians throughout the 1970s and '80s, starting with the world's first major all-female rock group, the Runaways, then as a platinum-selling solo artist who shared the bill with the Ramones ,Van Halen, Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Poison, and others - and who gave Ozzy Osbourne his first Top 10 hit. Then followed more than a decade of silence and darkness: a tumultuous marriage that left her feeling trapped, isolated from the rock-and-roll scene for more than a decade - and most tragically - alienated from her two beloved sons.

Living LIke a Runaway is Lita Ford's epic story - the dramatic chronicle of a pioneer who became "heavy rock's first female guitar hero" (Washington Post), of a fierce woman who kicked ass in the male-dominated rock scene, and of a returning queen who has reclaimed her soul and stormed back to the stage "as badass as ever" (Guitar Player).