I Met Her Before: A Novel Inspired by a True Story: A Novel Based on a True Story of Childhood Trauma, Family Betrayal, and the Fight for Healing

For thirty years, she told the story of how she saved her sister. She had it wrong.


Marcia Thompson remembers the day a stranger tried to pull her little sister into his car in the Philippines, and how she held on until help came. It's the story she's told her whole life.


Then her adopted children are taken from her home in Hawaii, and something cracks open. Nightmares. Flashbacks. When Marcia finally asks her mother about that day, the answer stops her cold. The man didn't grab her sister. He grabbed Marcia.


If she got that wrong, what else has she forgotten?


An Army officer, wife, and mother, Marcia is used to holding it all together. Now, with her faith, a counselor who believes her, and a husband who won't walk away, she must find the frightened little girl she left behind.


Inspired by a true story, I Met Her Before is an honest, hope-filled novel about faith, therapy, and the courage it takes to heal.


'This story represents so many women that have sat across from me in my counseling office!' — Meichell Worthing, LPC


“I could not put this book down once I started reading it.' — Lt. General Gina Grosso, USAF, Retired


About the Author

Chandra Moyer is a speaker, life coach, and decorated former Army officer who helps women heal from buried trauma and find their voice again. She received the FBI Director's Community Leadership Award for her child trafficking prevention work. Through DreamWatch, she helps women heal and hear God through their dreams. She is also the author of the memoir Tragically Taken, and lives in Hawaii.