HCI Books authors Tonier Cain and Erin Merryn will get an upcoming opportunity to speak their messages of faith on two prominent national Christian television programs.

Cain, the author of Healing Neen: One Woman’s Path to Salvation From Trauma and Addiction, will appear on Daystar TV’s The Joni Show on Wednesday, March 4. On a date to be determined, Merryn, a child advocate, trailblazer and author of An Unimaginable Act: Overcoming & Preventing Child Abuse Through Erin’s Law, will make an appearance on the 700 Club.

Both tireless and faith-based women, Cain and Merryn work in service to help those in need because of personal experience and are turning their misfortunes into good. Their books and memoirs document their life experiences and what led them to surrender their lives to God.

In amazing testimony, Cain reveals her life of 83 arrests with 66 convictions. After surviving a childhood of unspeakable sexual abuse, unrelenting violence and betrayal by systems that were charged with helping, Cain stands before her audiences today a testimony to the resiliency of the human spirit exemplifying the innate human instinct to survive.

Thousands of requests have been made to her to serve as the keynote speaker in front of audiences that include the United Nations, government agencies, teachers, community and civic organizations, mental health agencies, substance abuse programs, corrections facilities and trauma survivors. Cain is featured in the documentary Behind Closed Doors: Trauma Survivors and the Psychiatric System, and the subject of the award-winning film Healing Neen.

You can read more about her at toniercain.com.

Merryn is the author of books including Stolen Innocence, Living for Today, and An Unimaginable Act—all memoirs. She earned her Master’s degree in social work from Aurora University in May 2009.

After suffering years of sexual abuse and rape as a child, she broke her silence and found her mission in life. Merryn began a crusade her senior year of high school in 2004 to end the silence and shame around sexual abuse by publishing her childhood diary into a book.

She has overcome many obstacles from child abuse, a learning disability and living daily with epilepsy. In 2010 she became the force behind Erin’s Law—a law that requires public schools to teach children on age-appropriate sexual abuse prevention curriculum. She is traveling to each state capital to testifying to lawmakers to convince them to pass the law. She has made it her mission to pass the law in all 50 states.

In November 2012, Glamour Magazine named her Woman of the Year and she was honored in Carnegie Hall before 3,000 people. People Magazine named her a HEROES Among Us in April 2013 and listed her as one of 15 women changing the world in June 2014.

Read more about Merryn at erinmerryn.net.

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