Testing the Waters: Based on a True Story

by E. McNew

The constant fantasies of living on her own terms leads a fifteen-year-old girl to embark on a thoroughly plotted journey to become pregnant.

She obsessively studies fertility more than doing her homework. She charts her monthly cycles and tracks her most fertile days on a log kept secretly hidden under her bed.

After months of actively trying to conceive, she and her naïve nineteen-year-old boyfriend struggle through events that will shake their world, and shatter their over-confident assumptions of reality.

From a giddy girl with a fantasy, to a pregnant fifteen-year-old struggling to reverse her backfiring plot, this memoir is an invitation into the common thought patterns which are shaping the future for many young girls today. By making the conscious decision to become pregnant, Elizabeth Jeter altered her life in ways that she never could have imagined. She inadvertently introduced herself into a world of ill-intended criminals and quickly plummeted into their dark world, forgetting her values and nearly completely losing her identity for the next four years.

202 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 2, 2014

About the author

Elizabeth McNew was raised in the small town of South Lake Tahoe, California, where she lived until the age of 21. She relocated to Texas, Arizona, Georgia, and back to Texas again where she is happily married with an infant daughter and beautiful home were she spends most of her time writing. Elizabeth has loved creating poetry and short stories from a very young age. Her first official publication was released on 8/26/2013, titled "Fifteen &...What!?". Born June 28th, 1987, Elizabeth is 26 years old and ecstatic that she has met her true passion and love for writing.
Through several series of tragic events early on in her life, Elizabeth is applying her suffering to her love of writing in hopes of touching any person who is going through hard times.