🌙 A Light After Leaving: Preorders Are Live!

June 9, 2025. Mark it. Circle it. Tattoo it on your soul. Okay, maybe not that dramatic—but maybe it is, depending on how deeply you’ve ever questioned love, loneliness, or the terrifying stillness of silence between people who once said "forever."

Because that’s what this new collection is about.

✍️ From “Marin Reclaimed” to the Fears We Don’t Say Aloud

If you read my last post "Unraveling the Complexities of Love and Letting Go", you already know that Marin Reclaimed was my soul cracked open—spilled onto the page in poetic fragments and breathless honesty. Marin’s journey wasn’t just fiction. It was a mirror. For me. For you. For anyone who's ever asked, "What if I never find myself again?"

A Light After Leaving picks up that thread and weaves it through five stories, all told with that same raw softness. This time, I wanted to explore the unspoken fears inside marriage, love, and commitment—the ones that creep in after the vows, after the babies, after the honeymoon glow fades.

📚 What’s Inside?

💍 The fear of being loved for who you’re pretending to be.

🕰️ The fear of growing apart from someone you thought you’d grow old with.

🛏️ The fear of being abandoned emotionally, even while sharing the same bed.

👩‍👧‍👧 The fear of motherhood overwhelming your identity.

🧤 And the fear of letting go... when letting go might be the only way back to yourself.

Each of these five short stories is a love letter to the quietly aching parts of us—the parts we hide to keep everything looking okay on the outside. If Marin Reclaimed was the opening confession, A Light After Leaving is the chorus of every woman who's ever whispered, "I don’t know if this is what I signed up for."

✨ Why Preorder?

Because this is more than a book. It's 100% me with my worries, fears, and questions about what the process of marriage is and what it means to me.

It’s a warm hand on your back when you’re crying in the bathroom.
It’s the late-night journal entry you never show anyone.
It’s a soft spotlight on every version of love—including the messy, the ugly, the real.

And hey—preorders help me know you’re out there. That you want more. That these stories aren’t just floating in the void. So if you’ve ever wanted to support an indie author with $0 in ad money but 100% of her soul in her work—this is the moment.

💌 Let’s Keep Talking

I’ll be posting a cover reveal and a sneak peek of one of the stories leading up to release. So stay close. Let’s hold space for the stuff no one talks about—together.

🎉 Preorder now on your favorite ebook platform!

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