HARRISBURG — In 1984, 15-year-old Valerie Faulkner Beal’s testimony led to her father, James Faulkner, landing life imprisonment for the murder of Axl Rose’s biological father Bill Rose in Marion. More than 40 years later, she is telling her story in her memoir “A Rose Among Thorns.”

Valerie co-wrote the book with her pastoral counselor Terah Stearns. Valerie started seeing Terah at Little Chapel Church in Harrisburg after her “forever friend” Shannon Thetford passed away from cancer in 2022.

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