Adult Grief

An escaped madman is heading toward Chicago, leaving behind a trail of corpses. The victims are savagely torn apart - and partially eaten. Is the killer merely a cannibalistic psychopath - or a creature from the darkest pits of superstition?

Overcome by grief, Lucy needs to find an escape. The Scottish Highlands sound as good a place as any. Without a map or plan, Lucy sets off, never expecting to meet someone like Hannah, a woman who knows exactly how to take Lucy's mind off things... A short and steamy lesbian romance set in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland.

Discover the Enduring Hope that Arises from Walking Through the Shadows of Loss! Gain Insight into Your Grief Journey, Face the Future with Renewed Hearts. This 365-Day Devotional is designed to be your companion on the journey of grief, providing daily readings, reflections, and prayers that offer comfort, insight, and perspective.It encourages us to turn to Scripture for solace and guidance, to seek refuge in prayer, and to remember that we are not alone on this journey. God’s Word has been a lamp to our feet and a light to our path, providing direction and purpose even in the face of ...

An orphan teen girl. An impulsive decision to rescue a dog to help overcome her grief from her father's death. Is the dog’s puzzling barking behavior in her house a quirk, or is there something otherworldly lurking in her dining room? In this prequel short storyl, the moment orphaned sixteen-year-old Sarah Whitman rescues a Doberman is revealed. The never-before-seen story jumpstarts the premise of the first novel in the Shadow the Doberman series, Between Shadow’s Eyes.

Are you undergoing the loss of a loved one - a spouse, a partner, a parent, a child, or someone else - who had been a vital part of your life and about whom you cared deeply? Has your loss left you sad, confused, angry, and full of questions that seem to have no answers? If any of these examples describes your current situation, chances are you are experiencing grief - a natural, normal response to encountering any major loss.

Here is a book to help you or a loved one think and work through grief. Many times people have no one to talk to about their loss. This book is also a resource to use to help lead a grief group discussion about the four tasks of grief. To learn more go to Grievingteens.com, GrievingTeensPublishing.com.

Shattered Dreams and Broken Hearts is a spiritual and inspirational guide for family survivors who have lost someone to suicide. Expressing her grief through poetry, is not only therapeutic to the author, but can also be therapeutic to others suffering from similar losses. One can relate to the various stages of grief that one must go through in order to survive a horrible tragedy or senseless loss. One never knows when it is going to affect their family. It happens unexpectedly like an eagle swooping down for its kill.

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 ...

A new novel in verse from the author of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls comes this pensive piece about the dangers of growing up an orphaned young adult on an Indian reservation just outside a big city. Using a hodgepodge of prompts, the author challenged herself to write a novel in verse about the travesties seventeen-year-old Esme battles as she waits to age out of the foster care system. Once the fun-loving foster daughter in a vibrant, loving family where her precocious foster sister, Cambria, only a year her senior, led the family in melodious campfires after hiking, ...

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 ...

Davey's father has been murdered – and the aftermath is causing her family to fall apart. Davey's heartbroken mum plucks them up and takes them to stay with her prim and proper aunt in Los Alamos. She escapes the claustrophobic house by cycling up to the canyon, where she meets a mysterious older boy called Wolf: intense, brooding and also about to lose someone close to him. But falling for someone won't make her dad come back – there are no easy answers when you need to stick your broken family back together.

When Triss wakes up after an accident, she knows that something is very wrong. She is insatiably hungry; her sister seems scared of her and her parents whisper behind closed doors. She looks through her diary to try to remember, but the pages have been ripped out. Soon Triss discovers that what happened to her is more strange and terrible than she could ever have imagined, and that she is quite literally not herself. In a quest to find the truth she must travel into the terrifying Underbelly of the city to meet a twisted architect who has dark designs on her family – before it's too late . . .

Thin places. There are sacred moments when the distance between heaven and earth narrows, and anything is possible. Skye arrives at college, determined to leave her past behind. But suddenly she sees the shadowy image of her mother on campus. Eight years ago, Skye’s mother abandoned her. What happened all those years ago? Is she even still alive? Reluctantly, Skye seeks help in the counseling clinic, but the psychologist, Alix, has suffered her own tragic loss and resolves not to let the desperate girl drag them both into the past. Lyrical and passionate, THIN PLACES is a story of ...

From Dr Corinne Masur, an award-winning clinical psychologist specialising in grief and mourning, comes a necessary and impactful guide to understanding children's grief from the inside and to guiding children through loss, from the death of a parent and other family members, to the loss of friends, pets and even the family home. Dr Masur describes how to understand, help and guide children at each age and stage of development and uses her own childhood experience with loss through empathetic yet clinically informed advice.

After the death of his best friend, Eric Ly creates imaginary scenarios in his head to deal with his grief. Until one of them becomes real and a boy he met last summer in Japan finds his way back into his life. When he least expects it, Haru Tanaka walks into the coffee shop and sits down next to him. The only thing is, nobody else can see him.

When a Montana rancher is called to serve his country—and doesn’t come back—how will his family cope? See the answer through the eyes of 10-year-old Danny Branahan. Danny’s father went to war in Iraq and was killed in action. Danny struggles with the various stages of grief as he remembers good times with his father. With his vivid imagination, he turns Dragon, the horse his father gave him, into a means of escaping the reality he cannot accept. To add to his grief, financial problems caused by his father’s death force Danny, his mother, and sister to leave their Montana ranch. ...

Luca is ready to audition for the Australian Ballet School. All it takes to crush his dreams is one missed step...and a broken foot. Jordan is the gorgeous rowing star and school captain of Luca's new school. Everyone says he's straight - but Luca's not so sure.... As their unlikely bond grows stronger, Luca starts to wonder: who is he without ballet? And is he setting himself up for another heartbreak?

Davey's father has been murdered – and the aftermath is causing her family to fall apart. Davey's heartbroken mum plucks them up and takes them to stay with her prim and proper aunt in Los Alamos. She escapes the claustrophobic house by cycling up to the canyon, where she meets a mysterious older boy called Wolf: intense, brooding and also about to lose someone close to him. But falling for someone won't make her dad come back – there are no easy answers when you need to stick your broken family back together.

Erik's life has been falling apart ever since his dad died. Homework and being good at school stop feeling important when you're the new man of the house. When Erik's bad behaviour attracts the wrong crowd, he's sucked into a terrifying new world of drug dealing, trap houses and violence. Making money feels good but Erik soon learns that a small favour can become a huge debt. And when his sisters' lives are threatened, Erik will have to cross one more line to save them.

Jessica Hanes’ life crumbles down the day her mother dies of a drug overdose. With no knowledge of a close relative, she is shuffled from one foster home to another. Her life is far from being happy, or stable. She is broken. She yearns for a real family and a lovely home, and warms up to her new adoptive mother’s brother, who treats her like his little sister, but she is in for a surprise when she realizes he has a plan against her. Refusing to be a victim of circumstances,she takes an aggressive action against him in self-defense. She is on the run, but where can she hide?