About the Book

Book: A Wretch Like Me: A Modern-Day Mary Magdalene Saved by Grace

Author: Nancy Major

Genre: Memoir

Release Date: March 4, 2023

I couldn’t imagine in a million years that I would ever have the courage to face telling the world about this one ugly, vile secret I figured I’d die with. The truth of who and what I had been, how it happened, and the grace that saved me on the day my life imploded.

An anonymous packet was sent to business leaders throughout my community and surrounding thirteen-county area in 2006. As a business owner, I had made it a point to become well-known. When the president of one of the local chambers of commerce called me and I saw the packet for the first time, I literally couldn’t breathe.

I was shell-shocked and utterly shattered. I wanted to die. No words could explain away or erase what had been written. I couldn’t see any possible way to live with the guilt and shame of being “outed” as a prostitute.

If you’ve ever been tormented in a silent prison of shame over something you’ve done, haunted by a secret from your past, thought you were too broken, too bad, or too disgusting to be forgiven – you’re not alone.

You haven’t been forgotten or abandoned. You’re loved more than you could ever imagine, and above all, you’re NEVER too far gone for grace.

How would I know? Because grace saved a wretch like me.

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About the Author

Nancy Major is an award-winning nonprofit and business executive with more than thirty years of professional experience, including navigating the intricacies of complex mergers and acquisitions; rebranding and restructuring organizations and positioning them for growth and expansion; extensive board development and strategic planning; and creating organizational and financial sustainability.

She’s also a highly sought after professional speaker and certified Christian trauma coach. Nancy is passionate about helping people overcome and defeat the lies of the enemy and replacing critical, self-limiting beliefs with confidence about their divine destiny and purpose. She has become known as the #shameslayer.

Nancy is an Amazon bestselling author who recently published her memoir entitled, A Wretch Like Me; A Modern-Day Mary Magdalene, Saved by Grace. It offers a heart-wrenching glimpse into her lived experience as a former prostitute, “outed” publicly by a client bent on revenge. Her courageous story tackles themes of childhood sexual abuse, shame, public humiliation, redemption, and God’s immeasurable gift of grace.

Nancy is a wife of eleven years, a mother, stepmom, mother-in-law, and grandmother to six beloved and cherished cutie pies. She and her husband, Jesse, live in southeastern Wisconsin with their two silly pooches, Lulu Bell and Jilly Bean.

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My story has a lot of elements that read more like a Hollywood screenplay. The depth of darkness in my life seemed almost surreal, like a horrible nightmare that I could not wake up from.

I ran from my shame, trying desperately to hide a devastating secret for years, until one day, to my absolute and utter horror, my secret was exposed publicly.

The guilt and humiliation nearly destroyed me. I believed I could NEVER be forgiven … what I had done was just too shameful. And certainly the circumstances seemed to scream that I was right.

BUT GOD…two profound words that changed EVERYTHING in an instant and I have never been the same.

It is my fervent prayer that my story reignites, reawakens and renews your spirit and brings you that much closer to the heart of the Father.

Author Interview with Nancy

Q: Please give us a little introduction to your book. (Perhaps more information regarding what the book is about beyond the back-cover blurb? Or just explain what the book is about in your own words.)

Nancy: This faith-based memoir is my personal account of a time in my life when I was an accomplished professional woman with a successful career portfolio who was blindsided by circumstances following my third marriage. Completely destitute and desperate as a single mom, I was lured into the dark world of escorting/prostitution. In an attempt to provide my daughter with a better life, I meticulously separated into two personas. In my sleepy little rural town in northern Wisconsin, I was known as a doting soccer mom and a successful entrepreneur who traveled often for business. No one knew the truth and I was determined to keep it that way.

After three and a half years, I finally find a glimmer of hope for a way out. An opportunity arose for me to open a legitimate business in my hometown. Just as this new business was gaining traction, I was "outed" as a prostitute.

Distraught by the public humiliation, fear, and shame, I became suicidal and tried to take my own life. Through a miraculous turn of events, in what can only be described as an act of grace, my life was spared.

The trauma from my past left a tremendous and deeply entrenched sense of shame and guilt that I couldn’t seem to run far enough away from. I went to great lengths to keep my past a secret, but as I continued my walk of faith, I began to fully understand my true identity in Christ. What I discovered about resilience and faith along the way is what finally set me free.

Q: How long did it take you to write this book?

Nancy: I didn’t have any aspiration to become an author, and certainly not with THIS story!!! I had no idea where to start, how to start, or what would happen if I wrote it. In God’s miraculous nature, He took over once I said a fragile ‘yes, Lord’, and the whole thing was written in ten days.

It all happened SO fast, from the finishing of the book to meeting the publisher to publishing it, I can only shake my head in awe and wonder at the faithfulness of our Lord. If we give Him our shaky, fragile, little mustard seed of faith…won’t He do it?! I promise you, He WILL!!!

Q: What do you hope readers take away from your book?

Nancy: I genuinely love hearing that readers feel a deepened connection to their own faith journey and that they feel inspired to share their story. To seek healing from their wounds and to know that my story touched something inside of them.

Q: In what setting do you enjoy writing the most?

Nancy: I like to write in a comfortable spot inside in a quiet, undistracted space.

Q: What do you wish you’d known when you were younger?

Nancy: That God’s love is unconditional and not condemning. That He delights in us. That He is faithful and will never, ever forsake or abandon us.

Q: Where can readers find out more about you and your book?

Nancy: I have a Facebook Group named after the title “A Wretch Like Me” and also my website at www.nancymajor.net.