New Mica Miller Book: Unfinished Lamentations: Mica’s Story 

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Unfinished Lamentations: Mica’s Story examines her life, faith, marriage and the questions that remain after the Death of the Pastor’s Wife

MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — September 11, 2026 — More than two years after the death of Mica Miller captured national attention, a new book takes readers beyond the headlines and deep into the records, events and people surrounding her story.

Unfinished Lamentations: Mica’s Story, by investigative journalist and author Callie J. Lyons, is now available on Amazon.

Lyons began reporting on Mica immediately after her April 27, 2024 death and continued investigating her story for more than two years. Drawing on original reporting, interviews, police records, court filings and other documents, Unfinished Lamentations reconstructs not simply how Mica died, but the life she was trying to reclaim before her death.

The book follows Mica’s faith, marriage, attempts to leave her husband, encounters with law enforcement and the legal battles that continued after she was gone. It also explores the people and institutions surrounding her story and developments that have continued to unfold since her death.

“Mica became known to millions because of the way she died, but that is not the whole of her story,” Lyons said. “I wanted to follow the records, preserve her voice and tell the story that existed before April 27, 2024. More than two years later, that story is still unfinished.”

The book’s title is a nod to Mica’s faith as well as an ancient biblical concept of human suffering. Lamentations are expressions of grief, longing and protest.

Lyons is an author and investigative journalist whose work spans more than two decades. In 2007, she wrote Stain-Resistant, Nonstick, Waterproof and Lethal, the first book to investigate the toxic compounds now known worldwide as “forever chemicals.”

Unfinished Lamentations: Mica’s Story is available in paperback and e-book editions.

Background: The Mica Miller Case

The death of Mica Miller became a national story in the spring of 2024, beginning as a death investigation in rural North Carolina and eventually expanding into allegations of stalking, coercive behavior, domestic abuse and a federal criminal case against her estranged husband.

Mica Miller, 30, was the wife of John-Paul “JP” Miller, then pastor of Solid Rock Church in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Their marriage had been deteriorating, and Mica had taken steps to separate from Miller before her death.

On April 27, 2024, Mica traveled from Myrtle Beach to Lumber River State Park in Robeson County, North Carolina.

According to investigators, surveillance video documented portions of her movements that day, including her purchase of a handgun at a Myrtle Beach pawn shop. At approximately 2:54 p.m., Mica called 911 and told a dispatcher she intended to take her own life and wanted authorities to be able to locate her so her family could find her.

Her body was later discovered in the water at the park.

The Robeson County Sheriff’s Office concluded that Mica died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. Authorities said their determination was based on surveillance footage, witness interviews, physical evidence, the 911 call and findings from the North Carolina Medical Examiner. The medical examiner subsequently listed her death as suicide.

Investigators also established that JP Miller was not in North Carolina when Mica died.

But the official determination regarding the manner of Mica’s death did not end questions surrounding the circumstances of her life before April 27.

Instead, attention increasingly shifted toward what Mica had allegedly been experiencing during the breakdown of her marriage.

Before her death, Mica had made reports to law enforcement and raised concerns that she was being followed, tracked and harassed. Among the allegations that later became public were claims involving tracking devices, repeated unwanted contact, interference with her vehicle and other conduct she believed was intended to monitor or control her.

Her family and supporters began publicly demanding additional scrutiny of those allegations.

The case soon attracted widespread national attention, with demonstrations outside Solid Rock Church and an online movement demanding “Justice for Mica.”

Federal authorities ultimately became involved.

That investigation produced a major development in December 2025 when a federal grand jury indicted JP Miller on charges of cyberstalking and making false statements to federal investigators.

Federal prosecutors allege Miller engaged in a prolonged course of conduct against Mica beginning in November 2022 and continuing until her death in April 2024. The allegations include electronically tracking her location, repeatedly contacting her, interfering with her finances and daily activities, tampering with her vehicle and posting an intimate photograph without her consent.

Those allegations are now part of a federal criminal prosecution and should not be confused with findings regarding Mica’s death itself.

JP Miller has pleaded not guilty to the federal charges. He has not been charged with killing Mica or causing her death, and the Robeson County determination that Mica died by suicide has not been reversed.

The federal case nevertheless changed the public understanding of what Mica had reported before she died. Conduct that initially appeared largely through police reports, family statements and allegations surrounding a deeply troubled marriage later became the subject of allegations contained in a federal indictment.

Mica’s death has also fueled a broader debate in South Carolina over coercive control and whether existing domestic violence laws adequately address patterns of nonphysical conduct designed to isolate, intimidate, monitor or control an intimate partner.

Her family and supporters have advocated for legislation commonly referred to as “Mica’s Law,” aimed at strengthening protections for people who say they are trapped in controlling or abusive relationships.

More than two years after Mica Miller’s death, two separate issues therefore remain important when examining the case.

Authorities determined that Mica took her own life on April 27, 2024.

But the circumstances surrounding what she allegedly endured before that day have continued through a federal prosecution—one that could ultimately place evidence concerning the final years of Mica Miller’s life before a jury.

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