“Ever since I was seven, I was always afraid.”

From the night his father tried to kill his mother, fear became the author of his life. Abuse, trauma, chronic illness, and a devastating cancer diagnosis only deepened the belief that nothing good could ever happen.

But then, in a jail cell with a Bible he wasn’t looking for, he found something he...

Snow on the Quilt: A Memoir of Survival, Faith, and Grace
From waking up with snow on her quilt in a frost-covered Appalachian cabin to walking through the fires of grief and cancer, she never stopped searching for something bigger than the pain.
Born the youngest of ten, told from childhood she was a mistake, she carried burdens no child should...

“I was one of the good people. I followed the golden rules. I loved deeply. I sacrificed everything. And still, all I wanted was to be dead.”

This is not a story of neat endings or polished triumphs. Still Standing is a memoir forged in the fire of trauma, told by a woman who gave everything to protect her children—and still couldn’t stop the...