She's a Survivor

He walked away believing she was dead. She still had a story to tell.

On March 16, 2003, Kristie Taylor opened the bread store expecting an ordinary Sunday. A stranger asked for help finding tools he claimed to have left in back. Minutes later, she lay on the concrete floor with thirty-seven stab wounds, unable to reach a phone only feet away. She thought of her daughters, six and nine, and feared she would never see them again.

An eighty-three-year-old man heard a faint groan. Kristie forced out one word: "Help."

Survival was only the beginning. Emergency surgery gave way to painful therapy, invisible wounds, and the day she faced her attacker in court. In She's a Survivor, Kristie tells the honest story of rebuilding a life that would never be the same-and of the family and faith that helped her reclaim her voice, her future, and the joy she nearly lost.

For anyone wondering if hope can return after the unthinkable, Kristie's answer is hard-won and unmistakable: what tried to destroy her did not get the final word.

"God didn't just save my life so I could survive. He saved my life so I could live it." -Kristie Taylor