controlled burn: rising from the ashes to forge an unshakeable faith

What if life’s fires can not only be controlled but can also spur new life? In Controlled Burn, Emmy-winning news anchor and reporter Brooke Martin helps readers navigate their own fires with purpose and emerge stronger than before.

Confronted with a fatal diagnosis for their unborn baby girl, Brooke Martin and her husband faced an unimaginable choice, grappling with how to move forward amid a sea of unanswerable questions. Yet, in the midst of unspeakable grief, Brooke’s faith and vulnerability not only laid the foundation for her own healing but also for a global movement toward resilience and recovery.

Controlled Burn: Rising From the Ashes to Forge an Unshakeable Faith weaves together invaluable advice, spiritual insights, and raw truths learned from Brooke Martin’s greatest trials, offering readers guidance to walk through life’s fires and come out unburned. Whether in pregnancy, the workplace, marriage, or otherwise, we are bound to experience suffering in life. How we respond can be the difference between our destruction and our growth.

In Controlled Burn, Brooke Martin will guide readers in:

• healing and moving forward after tragedy or hardship.
• gaining a better understanding of their natural talents and gifts.
• listening for God’s voice in times of adversity and recognizing suffering as an invitation to grow closer to Him.
• shifting their perspective of pain into a period of self-growth.
• discovering how to use their own experiences to help others in similar circumstances.



Controlled Burn proves that miracles can happen when we are willing to surrender ourselves to God and walk into the fire with faith.

BROOKE MARTIN is an Emmy-winning anchor and reporter originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania. For fifteen years, Brooke told the community’s stories and asked the hard questions of those in charge. From an Oval Office interview to a conversation with a neighbor who just lost their job, Brooke has had a front-row seat to both the impressive and the important stories that make up our lives.

But none impacted her more than her own. Shortly after announcing her second pregnancy on air, Brooke and her husband received a fatal diagnosis for their daughter, Emma Noelle. For six months, Brooke carried their daughter while publicly walking through grief and ultimately loss.

Brooke is now working to show others how life’s fires have the ability to bring new growth, greater beauty, and everlasting hope. Sign up for her free resource, Proof + Prayer, sent straight to your inbox at MoreWithBrookeMartin.com.

Brooke lives in Zionsville, Indiana, with her husband, Cole, and her two children, Max and Marlowe. You can find them at their church, Antioch Indy, or biking on one of Zionsville’s beautiful trails. Controlled Burn is her first book.