the story behind the story
If you just finished reading Conspiracy of Silence, there is something I need you to know.
Nina Kasai’s story — the father who was supposed to protect her, the secret she spent decades carrying, the silence that nearly swallowed her whole — is not entirely fiction. When I wrote that book in 2012, I told the story the only way I could handle it at the time: at a distance, through a character, with the protective layer of craft between myself and the wound.
I was not ready to tell the truth. So I told it sideways, through Nina, and called it a novel.
After the book came out, a few family members asked me directly whether Conspiracy of Silence was autobiographical. I answered carefully. I said I borrowed from my experience to make the story feel authentic. I said Nina Kasai was not me.
I have been thinking about that answer ever since.
It Is Finished is what happens when the distance is no longer enough. It is the raw, unfiltered, true account of what I survived, what it built in me — the walls, the perfectionism, the fear, the faith with a ceiling I could never break through, the PTSD diagnosis that arrived decades after the original wound — and what God did with all of it.
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ABOUT THE BOOK
IT IS FINISHED
Overcoming Sexual Trauma Through the Healing Power of Jesus
Thirteen years ago, award-winning thriller author Gledé Browne Kabongo fictionalized this story because she wasn’t ready to tell the truth. She’s ready now.
It Is Finished is the raw, unfiltered testimony of a woman who survived sexual trauma and spent decades living in its shadow — the perfectionism, the walls, the sleepless nights, the faith with a ceiling she could never break through. Until the Holy Spirit showed her what she had never been able to see: it was never about her worth. It was a demonic attack on a life God had already marked for purpose.
Drawing from her own journey through silence, shame, a PTSD diagnosis that arrived decades after the original wound, and the slow, nonlinear path toward healing, Gledé speaks directly to the women who have never been able to say out loud what happened to them — and to the women who have said it but are still waiting to feel free.
When Jesus said “It is finished” on the cross, the word He used meant paid in full. Debt settled. Account closed. Nothing more owed. Your shame. Your silence. Your broken trust. Your unprocessed wounds.
Paid. In full. Already. This book is your invitation to finally believe it.
