About the Author

Kristen Michaels grew up in an immensely faithful and wholesome family. This average girl-next-door fell in love with her college sweetheart. She spent ten years in a marriage that didn't quite add up until she found the missing piece. Her husband had a sexual addiction.

The Book

In When Your Fairy Tale Fails, she recounts the brutal trajectory of how she fell for a sex addict and how she conquered the devastation of discovering his secret life. In this memoir, Michaels describes how the combination of confusion, panic, and pain disoriented her in a way she had never experienced. She laboriously searched for answers seeking to understand what was happening to her and why.

When Your Fairy Tale Fails shares a story about pain, betrayal, and uncertainty, but also about finding peace, joy, and freedom. It is about how God mended all the rips and tears of her heart.