Meet Ruki Williams
I am Ruki Williams, author of the Breaking Me Series. My journey as a published author began in the winter of 2025. My five children, husband and I live in Michigan with our three crazy dogs and a Kitty. For ten years, I have had the pleasure of calling the mitten my home.
My Family and I enjoy hunting, camping, fishing, and going on adventures. We spend most of our days enjoying 4-H, baking, and just having fun as a family. As a stay at home mom, my life was complete and I could not ask for anything else in this world.
The only problem with perfection it doesn't last.
I started book three in December of 2024, but there was something in me that would not allow its adventure to continue. So, I took a break. It gave me the time to focus on turning my finished novels into real life books. With the help of many author friends, I was able to make that painful dream a reality.
February 11th 2025, I released my first book. To say I was a nervous wreck and terrified was an understatement. Watching the clock tick down to the very moment I shared my nightmares with the world horrified me. What if the readers hated it? Would my family approve? Why would I do something this stupid?
Then, the reviews started rolling in. There were not a lot, but they were heartfelt and raw. A fire lit inside of me that had been smothered for so long because of my readers. The connection you made with the characters, and my story allowed me to feel something I had thought would never return to me. Pride.
In March of 2024 my best friend and father left us suddenly. His loss devastated me in a way I could not handle. So I spiraled, right down into a dark abyss and I could not find the light to crawl my way back out.
My husband and sister saw me struggling and threw me a lifeline. Write, they told me. Do anything; scream, cry, fight, bake or write. So I did. Words rolled down my arms into my finger tips flowing like a beam of light guiding me back home. That is how Breaking Me came to be. It was the darkness I was battling every day.
Then book two ripped through me as my world started to change without my father and I had to learn to survive without him. That is how Changing Me was born. It was the moment I broke through the black glass and could breath. Even if it was just for a moment. It gave me hope.
Reader after reader got a hold of me to ask questions, or just tell me how grateful they were for a story like this. That is when it happened, the very moment I knew this was my chance to fight through the pain and sorrow. To give my father, and myself the legacy he deserved.
Over the next year I wrote How My Knight Got His Scars, The Love of His Mother, Changing Me, and Christmas Ride. My world opened up and I could feel the characters calling to me, begging for their stories to be heard. Who was I to deny them?
With several other Breaking Me Series stories planned, as well as many new friends, I am happy to say there is no end in sight. The love I feel for my readers is something I will never be able to express. You all saved me from the shadows of my living nightmare. We have never met, but I want to tell you thank you.
It is the Trials and Tribulations of our lives that make us who we are. My father said those words to me so often and I never truly understood them, until now. The pain I have endured throughout my entire life molded me into the person I am on the inside today. Through those heartbreaks and tears, it made me the person you all needed me to be.
From the bottom of my heart into the depths of my soul. Thank you for believing in me. For loving a broken piece of me I thought I needed to hide. Truthfully? I cannot wait to see what adventures we go on next!