Kathy Sechrist, Author + Speaker + Advocate

Kathy Sechrist is an award-winning author, speaker, and advocate whose work explores the fear, secrets, and betrayal that can hide behind closed doors, and the courage it takes to break the silence. Her memoirs, Success Is the Best Revenge and Sara’s Redemption: A Journey of Courage, Resilience and Hope, tell her story of surviving domestic violence and rebuilding her life. Through “Sara,” the muse who helped her tell a story she was too close to tell herself, Kathy offers hope and validation to survivors. As a speaker and advocate, she draws on that experience to raise awareness, encourage people to speak up, and remind survivors that they are not alone. Her newest work moves into fiction with The China Grove Mysteries series, which opens with Bodies Under the Bluebonnets, Book 1. The novel carries the same themes into a gripping Texas Hill Country mystery, where buried secrets don’t stay buried and the cost of silence is deadly. Whether she’s writing memoir or mystery, Kathy’s work keeps coming back to one truth: what we hide shapes us, and telling the truth can set us free. She lives in Bulverde, Texas.