Curling dragged a shy introvert into the spotlight because she was so good at the sport.

Jennifer Jones chronicles her evolution from the youngster who snuck out of the St. Vital Curling Club daycare to sit behind the glass and watch her parents throw stones to international stardom in "Rock Star: My Life On and Off the Ice" released Tuesday by HarperCollins.

The Winnipeg skip who led her teams to an Olympic gold medal, two world championships and six Canadian titles wrote the memoir after retiring from team curling in 2024.

"It was really actually almost therapeutic for me to go through all the stories," Jones said. "I was sad, a little bit sad, about leaving curling, and it was a really good year to just kind of go through and reflect and reminisce on all the incredible memories."

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