When Melissa Moore concluded writing her book in June, she also put the finishing touches on a treacherous journey of healing.

Moore's father, Keith Hunter Jesperson, is serving a life sentence for the three people he was convicted of killing while working as a truck driver in the early 1990s. After her father's convictions, Moore spent more than a decade unsure of how to deal with her perception of her father being turned upside down, and the stigma that came with being his child.

The mother of two and convert to the Mormon faith said writing "Shattered Silence: The Untold Story of a Serial Killer's Daughter," released earlier this month, took her from a place of denial and shame to one of self-confidence and self-worth that finally offered her the healing she needed.

"As I wrote each chapter, I was uncovering more and more things," said Moore, a Spokane, Wash., native. "It was very therapeutic to get each layer out."

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