When Sophie, nursing the sudden end of her decade-long marriage, receives a life-altering diagnosis: cancer, a ticking time bomb that promises only a year left to live, her life begins to unravel.

Just when despair seems to take hold, fate intervenes in unexpected ways. During what will be her last chemotherapy session, Sophie crosses paths with Lily, a vivacious young girl with a mischievous smile and an equally grim prognosis.

Forming the most unlikely of friendships, together, they embark on a journey that transcends their shared struggle, celebrating life’s smallest moments and nurturing an unbreakable bond right to the very end.

One Year is a touching story that celebrates the power of friendship, hope and the extraordinary capacity of the human heart to find joy and meaning even in the most challenging circumstances.

A Million Reasons Why

In the wake of an unimaginable loss—the passing of her partner and daughter—Abbey’s world has shrunk to a hermit life existence with little to live for. That is until her path crosses with June, a woman in her mid-forties grappling with the heart-wrenching prognosis of early onset Alzheimer’s.

When Abbey intervenes in June’s desperate bid to prematurely end her life, neither of them comprehends the profound significance of their encounter, nor the journey that awaits them. But with time ticking away for June, and Abbey running from her own demons, one question looms.

Can Abbey and June be the support each other needs, or must they confront the inevitable alone?

A Million Reasons Why, tracks the story of two women, twenty years apart, finding the courage to face their own pasts and the endurance to embrace their future. Emotive and powerful, this novella will resonate with anyone who has past mistakes that haunt them, or has ever loved someone going through a terminal illness.

This book was the most beautiful, heartbreaking book I’ve ever experienced.

Goodreads review

This novella was heartbreaking yet hopeful, and incredibly thought-provoking

Goodreads review

When Tomorrow Starts Without You

At twenty-one, Holly knows hospitals. Diagnosed with cystic fibrosis as a child, she'd spent her whole life waging a war against an illness that was determined to cut her life short.

After her mother receives a terminal cancer diagnosis, a chance encounter leads to Holly crossing paths with Jake. Two years her senior, the charismatic and sharp-tongued Jake is also no stranger to hospitals. Having received his own terminal brain cancer diagnosis as a teen, Jake had spent half his life trying to defeat an invisible enemy too.

With time running out and their new found friendship tested in so many ways, Jake hatches a plan he believes will benefit them both.

The question is, will Holly agree?

If y'all want a drop kick to the FEELS...this is it. Need a good cry? Pick this up. Just want to read a really good book? This is also it.

@franksforeword

If you want to know what it feels like to have your heart ripped out, stomped on, and then super glued together - this will do it

@nikkireads

I devoured this one from front to back. You will laugh and cry. It will break your heart and put it back together again - but only in the way that something is super glued back together

@readbythelibrarian

PTSD

Take a journey in the mind of a soldier struggling with PTSD, and the mind of his wife who faces the challenge of helping her husband return to the man he once was. Is it possible?

Can he ever move past the horrors he has seen? Or is he destined to be a prisoner of war in his own mind?

With the assistance of fourteen real-life heroes, formerly and currently serving, this fictional novel is written to be an accurate representation of the battles our military veterans face. Help drive the conversation forward. Don’t just thank a veteran for their service—try to support them, as they have you.

ADDICTION

DOMESTIC VIOLENCE

Gemma’s life changed in an instant when four years ago, her husband Jack was killed in a drunk driving accident. In her mid-forties, surrounded by a modern age society, she falls into a recluse lifestyle, tormented by the ghosts Jack left behind.

After an instant connection grows between her and Lewis, a talented surgeon with a heart of gold, Gemma finds herself conflicted with nowhere to turn.

As the questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do the buried thoughts of Jack and the abuse sustained by his hands. Faced with the reality she has to let him go or risk surrendering the life she’d regained, Gemma is faced with one option.