Self Discovery Fiction

In the quest for romance, Jackie Dunn has been and done everything, but after having a conversation with a close friend, she finds out that her perfect match might be closer than she thought. My Heart's Secret is a short story with all the feels, allowing us to remember that finding love isn't always as difficult as we make it.

Thomas Bradshaw and Tonie Swann are experiencing the classic symptoms of marriage in its middle years: comfortable house, happy-enough daughter and an eerie sense that life might be happening elsewhere. Then Tonie accepts a big promotion at work and Thomas agrees to become a stay-at-home dad. While Thomas is suddenly faced with the daily silence of an empty house, Tonie finds herself alive to previously unimagined possibilities. And at the head of the family, the ageing Bradshaw parents continue their marital dynamic of bickering and petty undermining.

A Heartfelt Story of Friendship, Life’s Challenges, and New Beginnings (No HEA, sets up the series) Ellen, Betty, and Lori have built their lives in the peaceful community of Sunset Lake, but each carries a secret that could change everything. Their long-standing friendship is their anchor as they navigate personal struggles, past regrets, and the uncertainty of what lies ahead. As they open up to one another, their bond deepens, revealing hidden emotions, unresolved conflicts, and the weight of choices made over the years. Through laughter, heartache, and the comfort of shared ...

Some say the world will end... Raindrops fell on Mark’s face, traveled down his reddened cheeks and under the curve of his chin. They barely registered, but Mark knew they were there. He knew his face was wet, his hair dripping with rainwater, his clothes soaked. For some reason, though, the feather...the feather.... --from The Silence of Mark Allen Haines A weekend camping trip turns terrifying when eight-year-old Mark Allen Haines wanders off into the forest alone. What was to be a time of relaxation and an attempt to bring together a fragmenting family, turns into a panicked search. ...

Phoebe and Sam meet by chance at St Pancras station. Heading in opposite directions, both seeking their own adventures, meeting the love of their lives wasn’t part of the plan. So they make a promise: to meet again in the same place in 12 months' time if they still want to be together. But is life ever as simple as that? This is a story of what-ifs and maybes - and how one decision can change your life forever....

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Sometimes the further you distance yourself, the closer you are to the truth. What starts out as a simple trip around India soon becomes a psychological journey into the darkness of Sam's past. One he knows there's no running from. When Sam decides to give up his mundane life and travel to India he has no idea what he'll do when he gets there and it isn't long before his lack of preparation takes its toll. Vulnerable and alone, Sam is haunted by memories of his childhood and as he struggles to make sense of the pain he has suffered he follows a dangerous path that has devastating ...

In Connecting to Source: A Path to Self-Discovery Through Verse, Linda invites listeners on a journey into their unconscious, a path to self-discovery that could uncover the truth of how they perceive love: What is it? Where is it? Is there a love frequency we can tune into? Can we move towards self love of our own being and the truth of whom we think we are by sitting on a meditation stool or attending yoga classes?

Brooklyn Thomas is pretty sure she's mostly dead. She can't feel her heart beat and she's disappearing: her reflection keeps vanishing from mirrors. No one else seems to notice. Not her coworkers at the artisanal doughnut shop she works at after failing at her high-paying marketing job. Not her crush, whom she keeps humiliating herself in front of. Not her parents, whose basement suite she's stuck living in. She's hallucinating stars from all her favorite TV shows who want Brooklyn to pull herself together and face the truth about what happened to her.

Recently divorced, Palma, a forty-three-year-old Latina, takes stock of her life when she reconnects with her gangster younger cousin recently released from prison. Her sexual obsession with him flares as she checks out her other options, but their family secrets bring them together in unexpected ways. In this wildly entertaining and sexy novel, Ana Castillo creates a memorable character with a flare for fashion, a longing for family, and a penchant for adventure.

Love in Hatfield: Naledi Book 1 of the Love in Varsity Series When Naledi leaves her quiet hometown of Mafikeng for the bustling streets of Hatfield, Pretoria, she steps into a world unlike anything she’s ever known. Armed with ambition and a scholarship to the University of Pretoria, she’s determined to succeed, but she soon finds that the city doesn’t just challenge the mind; it tests the heart, the spirit, and the soul. Drawn into the fast-paced life of varsity culture, nightclubs glowing under neon lights, whispers of wealthy older men, campus drama, and emotional rollercoasters, ...

Wayward Greek heiress, Ariana Theodosis, inherits the Hotel du Soleil as part of a mysterious legacy. Captivated by its faded glamour, she hopes it offers her the chance to start again. Hotelier Gabriel du Lac’s family have owned the hotel for decades—and he has no intention of giving it up for a beautiful stranger. Madame du Lac has watched the rich and famous pass through the doors of the hotel for almost half a century, and she has kept its secrets too. As the past finally catches up with them all, will this summer reveal a forgotten secret, and change their lives forever?

For city vet Isabella Passmore, the opportunity to pet-sit in the country knocks at the perfect time. Bring on that fresh air! But after three days of holiday bliss, Izzy is bored silly. If the air gets any cleaner, she'll start slinging mud. Then she gets offered work in the second-hand shop. Saved!

An unorthodox and controversial slap to the face of the status quo, Into the Light Boldly: …an odyssey of self-discovery, an audacious new novel by Amazon best-selling author, Val Edward Simone, is a shockingly frank, honest, and daring undertaking regarding death and dying - a most frightening subject.

Marie Kopan is excited to bring you Vol. 2 of her journey of love and self-discovery in poetry. Like Vol. 1, Love's Reflection, False Reflections includes many expressive poems reflecting a myriad of emotions from love to pain, hate, determination, sadness, and then transformation, faith, and life! A lifetime's journey in a woman's heart.

The first volume of a two-volume collection of unique poems written throughout the author's journey from a young girl's heart to womanhood. These expressive poems reflect teenage first love, the heartache of love lost, inspiration gathered along the way, and even death, while discovering the ephemeral thread that joins them. The underlying themes: Renewal, Rebirth, and Life!

A girl's life hangs in the balance. A marriage is driven to breaking point. When the unimaginable happens, who can you turn to? "Very occasionally a story jumps out at you with a raw burst of originality. This is that moment." ~ Lorraine Devon Wilke, Author As a London suburb reels from riots in neighbouring Brixton, Graham Jones finds fatherhood an increasingly frightening place. How can he hope to protect teenage daughter Judy when the world is already so different from the one he grew up in? But the future holds more fear than he can possibly imagine. One afternoon, a wall collapses, ...

I glance at my open blinds, not really caring who sees me fully naked and glowing in the morning light. This is my morning, my day to do exactly how I please. And today I choose to please myself.

In this lush, lyrical, and marvelously evocative novel, Catherine Texier takes a mystery from her family's past and draws from it a portrait of a remarkable woman, her great-grandmother Victorine. A young schoolteacher in a quiet province in France, Victorine had married and had two children. But when she falls desperately in love, she makes a startling choice, leaving her family for her lover and a new life in Indochina.

As a recent divorcée and newly single mother struggling with the relationship and life she's lost, Amanda is tormented, teasingly, by her younger sister she loves dearly and has always looked up to for her brashness, audacity, and self-confidence Amanda has never known herself. When her incredulous sister suggests the two of them attend "Goddess classes" together, Amanda reluctantly goes along, even as she realizes she's in way over her head and completely out of her own comfort zone.