Don’t Let the Monsters Out

This is the account of my deployment to Camp Bucca, Iraq, in 2007. It’s a riveting story of detainees, prison camps, and the desensitization of humanity. FYI it’s definitely 18+ and if you’re looking for a good Christian story, this isn’t it.

Here is the link for purchase: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BLFY4L5W

However, Chains of Freedom is a great book for the spiritual reader or someone wanting inspirational writing. It’s more journalistic and devotional-style writings of how I stumbled into Christianity and the wild changes that brings. Here is the link for purchase: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BVGMN1H4

In A Funny Thing Happened on My Highway to Hell, pastor’s kid turned lesbian Heather O’Brien shares her raw and vulnerable story of how God rescued her from crippling mental illness and suicide and delivered her into His hope.

Heather offers no pat answers or easy step-by-step solutions. She lays out her very real struggles as she walked out healing from severe PTSD after a sexual assault while in the military, after her post at Camp Bucca, Iraq, and more.

She honestly shares her heart and journey related to her sexuality, addictions, and mental illness, pulling no punches on her journey to healing. If you or a loved one has walked down a dark road of despair so that all hope is completely lost, Heather’s story can offer you the restoration in Jesus that you need.


Trigger and content warning for mentions of suicide and sexual assaults.