The Tight Rope


How am I doing this? How can a woman from my world write books, speak publicly, answer strangers, and reveal things she was raised never to discuss...

Without being discovered?

Without destroying her marriage?

Without losing everything?

People ask whether my husband knows. They ask when I find the time, where the money goes, what my community thinks, and how I continue living one life in daylight while building another in the quiet hours when my family sleeps.

But beneath all those questions is a much more frightening one:

What would happen if I fell?

I have never given anyone the whole answer.

Until now.

In The Tightrope, I take you into the hidden margins of my day and reveal:

  • The hours when I do the work nobody sees
  • What my husband knows... and what he does not
  • The real reason I am so careful
  • Why the consequences would fall hardest on my children
  • What people inside my community think of what I am doing
  • The messages that convinced me to keep going
  • How I maintain two separate worlds without allowing one to spill into the other
  • Why I remain on the rope, even when stepping down would be safer

I will not give you names, numbers, or details that could hurt the people I love. A woman does not survive on a wire by revealing every place she puts her foot.

But I will tell you enough.

Enough to understand how I have remained standing.

Enough to understand why I continue.

And perhaps enough to recognize the tightrope you have been walking in your own life.

I am not leaving my world. I love it too much for that. I am trying to remain whole while standing between two worlds that were never supposed to touch.

The rope has held this long.

But the margins are narrowing. My children are getting older. The day when the quiet hours are no longer enough is getting closer.

When that day comes, I will have to decide what happens next.

And so will everyone around me.

The Tightrope is a beautifully designed, 21-page digital book delivered as an instant PDF download. Read it privately on your phone, tablet, or computer.

All for just $4.95

Come out onto the wire with me. I will show you how I live here without falling.

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