Overview

• The Simon & Schuster book, out Tuesday, charts Neeley’s path from California teen to BYU athlete, young mother, and reality TV figure.
• Neeley recounts being drugged and raped by an ex-boyfriend by age 20, an unplanned pregnancy, and the 2015 death of her son's father, Arik Mack, in a car crash she says happened while he was texting her.
• She describes returning to BYU with family support, leaning on her Latter-day Saint faith, and navigating depression and grief that she says still comes in waves.
• A publisher representative says the narrative was crafted with a co-writer using her journals and blog, adding detail she says never aired on "The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives."
• Neeley is promoting the book with national interviews and a four-stop tour that ends Friday in Salt Lake City, as a new season of the Hulu series is slated for November.