#54 THE GIRL WHO ROARED QUIETLY

<h2><strong>How Many Men Hire a Hitman to Kill Their Wife?</strong></h2> <p>The answer for me was one. Why?</p> <p>April, you quote, “The breath of life gives us our words to share our stories. May we all be brave enough to pick up the pen and write.”</p> <p>And I quote, “All that is needed for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to remain silent.”</p> <h2><br></h2> <h2><strong>How did I get here?</strong></h2> <p><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3d62a6_4146a824b439419988287309cf8d2ca4~mv2.png/v1/fit/w_300,h_300,al_c,q_5/file.png" width="300" height="167"/><img src="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/3d62a6_4146a824b439419988287309cf8d2ca4~mv2.png/v1/fill/w_720,h_402,al_c,q_95/3d62a6_4146a824b439419988287309cf8d2ca4~mv2.webp" width="720" height="402"/></p> <p>You probably don’t know unless you read the book, but my ex-fiance had a hitman paid to kill me. Yes, it indeed has been an unusual couple of years.</p> <p>Now that I am on the other side of that debacle, as I fondly refer to it, I hope to inspire and help you survive and thrive. I think I am somewhat qualified due to what I have been through.</p> <p>How did &nbsp;I accidentally become a writer and an advocate for empowering women?</p> <p>It was by accident.</p> <p>It was because an amazingly huge, unbelievable diabolical story happened in front of me, and I knew I had to put pen to paper. (Well actually polished fingernail to keyboard)</p> <p>My story was public. My <em><strong>humiliation</strong></em> splashed across social media as if my story was gossip fodder, and my pain; my feelings were irrelevant. I felt personally unheard, invisible, and a public joke. <em><strong>My heart was breaking</strong></em>, and I felt alone. I had been isolated and, out of habit, dug into my cocoon of silence, further &nbsp;<em><strong>Ashamed and self-hating</strong></em>.</p> <p>Originally I wrote the novel, ‘<em><strong>The Girl who Roared Quietly</strong></em> “, titled “<strong>What Happened to Paul Carter?</strong> “.</p> <p>And I wrote