The difference between a commitment and a desire, a goal is huge. When we desire something, we go after it. However, if something else comes in the way or it gets difficult, we stop. When we’re committed to something, nothing gets in the way. We will do anything for it. Nothing stops us, not fear of what others say, not challenges, nothing.

After my husband left me, I almost gave up on life. Like so many women, I was devastated and felt unworthy. I also saw so many other women shrivel and literally give up when they were left by men. The women allowed someone else to decide that they weren’t pretty enough, sexy enough, smart enough, enough. I didn’t know how I was going to reach women, but I knew I had to.

But how? Then I thought about stories—they are how we relate, how we learn, and how we remember. As a former English teacher, I knew I could tell a story. That’s how my novel, SEX HAPPENS, was born. As gut-wrenching as EAT PRAY LOVE, and because it’s not an autobiography, as titillating as FIFTY SHADES, it’s about a woman who loses custody of her children and has a custody battle so poisonous it becomes almost murderous. It’s about marriage, motherhood, sex and what we’ll do for each.

Once I made up my mind to help women the only way I knew how, I achieved my dream. It was only because I was committed, was authentic for the first time in my life and shared my secret, and when you read it, you’ll see, I over-delivered on my promise to write a page-turner.

But the best part: Women have been emailing me telling me how the book made them laugh, cry, and it changed their lives. One women emailed from Liverpool, England since her cousin recommended the novel and she said, “it was her story.”

Once we are committed to a cause or idea, amazing things happen—things ever beyond our expectations. Another one said it changed her sex life!! Really.

So, if you’ve ever been disappointed by love, maybe even devastated, the message in SEX HAPPENS can help to empowering you.

If you’ve ever let someone else decide whether you were pretty enough, sexy enough, enough, the story I tell in my novel, SEX HAPPENS, will empower you to take back your power.