"Angels of a Lower Flight" details how Susie Scott Krabacher evolved from a cocaine-fueled model and Playboy centerfold who bottomed out in Aspen into a good Samaritan who risked her life to help unwanted children of Haiti.

While the book is about Krabacher, warts and all, it's really an effort to draw attention to dire conditions facing handicapped, orphaned and underprivileged children in Haiti and her efforts to help them. Krabacher formed the Mercy and Sharing Foundation with her husband, Aspen attorney Joe Krabacher, 14 years ago. It is dedicated exclusively to helping the children of Haiti.

She deals with it in a straightforward way, without sensationalizing it. Her memoir discusses the sexual abuse and neglect she endured as a kid. She was out of her family's house and introduced to a party life in Salt Lake City by age 15.

Read More about the book. For more information about the foundation's mission, visit www.haitichildren.com.