Nicole RyanNicole Ryan wrote Stand Fast in the Valley not from an office, but from the valley itself.For years she kept journals - not to publish, but to survive. Pages written in the quiet minutes after everyone else was asleep. Pages that said the things she ouldn't say out loud.She is a woman of deep faith who learned that standing fast sometimes means staying and sometimes means having the courage to leave.Nicole is not a therapist, a pastor, or a public speaker. She is a woman who did what countless women are trying to do right now: she documented what was happening to her, made a plan while being watched, escaped domestic violence with her faith intact, and rebuilt a life from nothing.This book is those journals - unpolished and unfiltered - woven into a clear directive for the woman still in it.She now lives a quiet, rebuilt life. She writes under a pen name to protect the peace she fought to earn.If you are reading this from the valley, she wrote it for you. Stand fast. You get to live.Stand Fast in the Valley is her first book. Read More Read Less