SHOTS Fired: A Heroine's Memoir

Some stories break you. This one rebuilds you.

Before Mount Kilimanjaro… before the climb… before the transformation, Tracy Lance had already endured what many never recover from.

From the streets of Chicago to the tallest mountain in Africa, SHOTS Fired: A Heroine’s Memoir is the unforgettable true story of a girl from “the hood” who faced trials far beyond her years. Trials that could have ended her story before it began.

Raised amid unimaginable poverty, tragedy, stabbing, blindness, and gun violence, Tracy learned that survival was only the beginning.

Her life became a series of literal and figurative shots fired. Where those experiences might have confined a lesser soul to a life of limitation, Tracy chose another path.

From that wreckage, she built an extraordinary foundation for success, choosing growth over bitterness, purpose over excuses, and healing over hiding.

With fearless honesty, she tells the truth about the fires she endured and the ones she started. She reveals the pain she carried, the mistakes she made, and the strength she forged through every fall.

This is not a story of victimhood.
It is the story of a fighter.

In a powerful testament to transformation, Tracy takes readers to Africa, where she embarks on a journey up the tallest mountain on the continent, a place she comes to call “God’s playground.”

What unfolds is more than a physical challenge. It becomes a deeply personal reckoning that will test her limits in ways she never imagined.

But nothing could have prepared her for what awaited her on that mountain.

This is more than a memoir.
It is the story of what she became.

Brace yourself.

She takes readers on a journey they will never forget. One that will make you flinch at her pain, grieve her losses, and cheer for her victories. It may shock you. It may break your heart. But it will also inspire you.

Life tried to break her.
Fire refined her.
She became what the fire could not destroy.

This book is proof.