What makes this non-fiction novel different? When Truth and Lies Collide: The Power in Connection, Communication and Relationships is a groundbreaking way to learn through a fictional story involving a riveting mystery of murder, blackmail, and embezzling funds. It is intrigue narrated by twisting and weaving instructive non-fiction principles of relationship building with a dynamic plot, a thriller page turning pace, and messy human beings facing a moral dilemma. You will fall in love with these characters.

A strong female protagonist, Lindsay Thompson, is the Senior Vice President and General Counsel trying to save her Architect and Engineering firm from financial collapse. She soon discovers the end of the firm isn't their biggest problem. Lindsay finds herself in the middle of an investigation into a scheme of embezzling funds, blackmail by a disturbed young man in his twenties, and murder. When she finds out who is responsible for the crime against the firm, she discovers that truth is complicated. She faces a moral dilemma of whether or not to help this embezzler who committed the crime. Nothing is exactly as it seems and it's up to Lindsay to figure it out. In the middle of drama and tragedy, Adam Bennington, a fascinating and successful consultant is hired to facilitate this executive team through a basic set of steps, measures, and tools to save them.

PS Kellihan has been successful in meshing this non-fiction training and an enthralling story filled with drama that brings people together in alliance rather than accepting adversarial positions as being good enough. The fictional story takes us on a journey that demonstrates the power of relationships, connection, communication and trust. The learning modules feature gut wrenching exercises diving into the personal lives of colleagues, exposing vulnerabilities, daily challenges and burdens and accelerates to deeply personal discoveries transforming this group of human beings into people with a different perspective when they walk out of that experience.

This book leaves the reader with a way to navigate daily maintenance and growth through a system of principles, behaviors, and models that are not complex, but necessary to build the critical habits for relationships and culture. It may be the key to your transformation and embracing your flaws as a work in progress. It is a process. And, the moral dilemma - what would you do?
About the Author: PS Kellihan has spent over sixteen years as a senior leader for a Naval Command of over 18,000 people throughout the United States, Europe, Africa and Southwest Asia. With more than twenty years of leadership experience with Navy, Army, and Coast Guard commands, a substantial amount of her time has been focused on re-engineering and transforming cultures and infrastructures, policies and processes, roles and responsibilities, and navigating through command and control operations for organizations.

She performs a wide range of consulting, speaking, and training engagements throughout the country at national conferences and other world class organizations on a variety of topics. Her extensive experience in leadership, coaching and mentoring a diverse collection of individuals and teams, and her passion for connection and relationship building through a system approach dates back to playing collegiate basketball. She was inducted in the Christopher Newport University Hall of Fame in 1990.

She is the president and founder of RaiseUp LLC.