A Memoir of Faith, Defiance, and Queer Identity
Goodness isn’t the same as wholeness.
I grew up knowing exactly how to be the perfect Mormon girl—obedient, disciplined, acceptable. Then Melanie Thatcher crashed into my life like a forbidden song. When our friendship shifted into something more, everything I had built to belong came undone.
I rebuilt myself into someone the Church could approve of.
Someone who didn’t love the wrong people.
Decades later, the truths I uncovered about the Church forced me to confront the cost of that rebuilding—and the self I abandoned to survive.
The Sacred Song of a Heretic is an intimate LGBTQ memoir about first forbidden love, religious pressure, and the courage to finally belong to yourself.
A story for anyone who’s ever outgrown the life they were told to live.
