The Tighter I Held: A Memoir

In the dead of night in Jerusalem, something woke Kristy Sullivan -- and for the first time in her life, she didn't shrink from it. She spoke commands into the darkness, stood her ground, and became a woman she never expected to be.

That moment didn't come from nowhere. It was the final note of a symphony that had been building for a lifetime.

Kristy grew up learning to read the temperature of a room before her feet hit the floor -- small, quiet, careful, a girl who folded her pain away and k...