Adult Grief

Holly’s story will leave a lasting impression on all who travel with her. Memories of mum are the only thing that make Holly Hogan happy. She hates her foster family with their too-nice ways and their false sympathy. And she hates her life, her stupid school, and the way everyone is always on at her. Then she finds the wig, and everything changes. Wearing the long, flowing blond locks she feels transformed. She’s not Holly anymore, she’s Solace: The girl with the slinkster walk and the supersharp talk.

Bailey Baxter’s ninth grade year couldn’t get any worse. After losing her mother to cancer, Bailey’s father decides to move the family back to his hometown in Tennessee. Leaving Nelson, the only home she’s ever known, is the icing on the cake. Uprooted from the familiar, with wounds left unhealed, Bailey reluctantly spends her first few days in Fulton attempting to hide in the shadows of strangers. However, as the daughter of Fulton’s hometown hero, she catches the attention of many—foiling her plan to simply blend in. Worst of all, the biggest jerk in school has decided to make...

In the tradition of A Song of My Heart, The Harper Call is a collection of song lyrics and poems written over several years. Several were inspired from the Legends of Arria and Legends of Arria 2002 series, as well as an unpublished novel. The rest have ties to the writer’s life or the writer’s whimsy.

There’s nothing as devastatingly painful as the loss of a loved one. And getting through this pain will be one of the toughest things any of us will go through in our lives. Grief is a universal experience that everyone will endure at one point in their lives, yet it’s also a uniquely individual journey for every one of us.

A collection of the journals, fiction, and letters of the late Esther Grace Earl, who passed away in 2010 at the age of 16. Essays by family and friends will help to tell Esther’s story along with an introduction by award-winning author John Green who dedicated his #1 bestselling novel The Fault in Our Stars to her.

Faith Carson is having difficulty navigating her own life. Susanna Carson left behind a grieving husband and daughter. Despite Doug’s efforts to help his daughter think otherwise, Faith believes she was her mother’s greatest disappointment. Struggling to gain momentum in her life, Faith allows childhood memories to plague her, until she is convinced she is undeserving of love. Travis is captivated by the beautiful, troubled Faith, but there is little hope for them when Faith can’t even like herself. When a dark secret from her mother’s past is revealed, turning everything Faith ...

Rowan Davies has never liked Grayson Cole. He's arrogant, cocky, and was her fiercest competitor in law school. The only thing Grayson has is common with Rowan is their best friend Seth -- until Seth tragically dies in a car accident. Pushed together by their grief, Rowan and Grayson embark on a journey of closure, and find that love can grow even in the most barren of places, when you need it the most.

It’s been seven months since Morgan has heard from Bailey, not since a fight on New Year’s Eve that may have ended their friendship forever. To figure out what went wrong, Morgan has some serious retracing to do, starting with a five-day stay at the beach house that started it all. Morgan reunites with her friend group at The Highview, an oceanfront house where they’ve spent every summer since they were kids. There’s Noah, who hopes that his friends trust one of his plans one final time. Ethan, who mourns the loss of the girl he loved and never got to tell. Allie’s anger ...

After years of physical and verbal abuse from her mother, fourteen-year-old Coi moved in with her father, and together they created a peaceful life. But now, four years later, that peace is shattered when her mother dies. While Coi struggles to find kindness in her heart for the woman who did nothing but hurt her, her mother’s passing does help reopen the door to her mother’s side of the family. It’s only through reconnecting with her estranged family members, especially her younger half-sister Kayla, that Coi’s long-held views about her mother are challenged.

After her single mother passed away, Grace Rector got a tattoo—and wrote a book. Pouring her love, grief, and familial experiences into written word, Grace ties her relationship with her mother and travel into The Rector Girls. This captivating memoir reveals the beauty of an untraditional family: from her mom handpicking “the Big Kids,” Grace’s chosen siblings, to letting Grace hitchhike across the Bolivian border. Each chapter is embedded with tokens of wisdom, such as “Learn from Strangers,” “Ask and You Shall Receive,” and “Celebrate Everything.” At its core, The ...

The story is set in the late 1920's and the story makes you feel like you are in Chicago at the time the Italian mobs were ruling the town. Rosemary is an only child from an Italian family that is related to Al Capone. Antonio is from an Irish-German family and he works for his father as a mechanic. His father works for a rival mob family. They had a chance meeting at a coffee shop near her college and they eventually fall deeply in love. This is similar to a modern Romeo and Juliet type story. This is a sad, deep and moving story. If you enjoy a good story about forbidden or frowned upon ...

The summer after senior year should have been a time for Cam to party and hang out with his friends. It should also have been a time for him to win back the love of his life, Allison Tandy, who'd dumped him so brutally the year before. But it quickly becomes clear that this summer is going to be worse than a failure for Cam. It's going to be a tragedy. Ally is left comatose after a terrible car crash, then Cam tears his ACL in a basketball accident. The operation leaves him in agony, confined to his couch and ruminating over the fact that his ex may not survive.

When your heart can't say the words, let a mix-tape do the talking. Tia Mercury is a freshman in high school and has her first serious crush...on a senior who won't touch her. At least not until she turns eighteen. Clinton Daniels is not your everyday teenage boy, and because his tougher-than-nails father won't let him forget it, Clinton becomes a loner. And learns to distrust everyone. Until he meets Tia. She's sweet, she's funny, and she knows nothing about good music. It's the nineteen-eighties for goodness sake...time to turn off that AM radio crap. So, while Tia drools over ...

Life is often a combination from moments of joy, sorrow, and unexpected twists. For me, one such profound twist arrived when I became a widow at the age of 40. In an instant, my world shifted, and I was faced with navigating a path I had never imagined. This book is my journey through widowhood, a ten-year odyssey marked by the depths of grief, the heights of resilience, and the pursuit of healing. In this book, I invite you to join me on a voyage through the intricacies of loss and recovery, and the transformative power of time.

He’d made mistakes...more than a few and probably didn’t deserve the second chance he’d been given. But he was going to do everything he could to prove himself worthy of it. Ray didn’t have a single doubt that a number of individuals were wondering where he’d disappeared to. With luck it would stay that way...but if it didn’t he probably wouldn’t be around to worry about it. Not even a week ago he’d arrived on the island with a windfall of money to his name but no where to go. Being given another chance was the last thing he expected when he arrived...or that it came from ...

Tiger's life changed with a simple phone call. Her mother has died. That's when darkness descended on her otherwise average life. Tiger's mother never talked about her father, and with no grandparents or aunts or uncles, her world is packed into a suitcase and moved to a foster home. And another. And another. Until hope surfaces in the shape of.. a sister? Sometimes family comes in forms you don't recognise. But can Tiger learn to make friends with the darkness before it swallows her whole?

Fifteen-year-old Wonder Blake and her family are trying to recover from the death of Wonder's older sister Lucky, who was about to sign a major record deal when she died. When Lucky's talent manager runs into Wonder at the Dairy Queen where she works, her life takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, despite her own ambivalence, she is the one signing the record deal. Transformed into a teen idol and thrust into the spotlight, Wonder learns what it takes to be a star, and also what it costs.

Venture into the unknown and be captivated by a tale of resilience, adaptation, and familial strength with "Beyond the Cosmic Threshold" – an enthralling science fiction odyssey interwoven with the rich tapestry of family drama. Amidst the backdrop of the verdant and mysterious planet Eridani, a small human colony stands as a beacon of hope and new beginnings. However, for the Vale family, their interstellar relocation to escape the mundane existence of Earth unfurls into a profound journey of loss, challenge, and reinvention. When tragedy forcibly rips the patriarch from the Vale ...

She’s running from the past. He’s chasing his future. Neither expected love to catch them. Married. Widowed. Alone—by twenty-one. Mac has lost everything, and the only way to survive is to keep moving. Taking a job as a personal chef for a touring band isn’t glamorous, but it’s freedom. An escape. Dean is a rising star with no time for distractions. Music is his world, and love has no place in it. But Mac isn’t just another face in the crowd—she’s a storm he never saw coming. Life on the road is unpredictable, and so is the pull between them. But some pasts don’t stay ...

Once upon a time, a mother's heart was consumed with the pain and sorrow of being estranged from her beloved son. The modern world had cast a shadow on the special bond they shared, and she felt as though a part of her had been torn away, impossible to recover. However, a glimmer of hope emerged when she discovered a rip in time, a portal leading to infinite possibilities beyond her understanding. Through this mystical gateway, she caught a glimpse of the numerous paths her son could take, the many versions of himself that could exist. She saw the potential for him to become a father, the ...