This is the part of the book where I'm supposed to convince you that reading this book is worthwhile. I wish I didn't have to. I wish I never had to write it. But brokenness exists. I go through most days feeling broken and having thoughts of suicide. So, here's my book to you. I didn't write it to make a lot of money, but out of a need to survive, and to hopefully help others who read it. It is born out of my story of living with a mental illness. I write about things in this book that made life easier, and at times, probably kept me alive. You shouldn't have to wait to tell your story until you have things all figured out-I'm not even close, but I'm sharing mine. I pray what I've learned encourages you to share your experiences with someone too. Here are some things I'd like you to think about as you consider reading this book. Do you:Feel like you have to pretend you're not broken, and pray that your struggle doesn't get passed on to your kids?Feel overwhelmed with inadequate boundaries and need help knowing where to draw the line with people?Get those check-in sheets every time you go to your therapist and can't make sense out of the scale they're using? Feel lost between faith and sanity, success and failure, hope and helplessness?If you feel broken, I wrote this for you.

A tale told in bittersweet flashbacks follows a fateful car accident of a young woman devotedly loved by a man and a woman, who discover that the comatose woman is pregnant and that her health is being overseen by her malevolent stepfather.

Rose is hiding-from her past, from her own mind, from the world she knows promises no happy endings as she works to make a better life for her newborn daughter. Josh is trying-to make ends meet, to protect his only family from the fears that haunt them both, to keep the darkness from winning while he makes his way through the hurdles life keeps coming. When Rose and her daughter move into the building Josh and his best friends live in, it becomes clear they're meant to be a part of each other's lives-trauma knows trauma, and weary hearts and broken souls grow together. But beyond their newfound friendship, the universe has more in store for Rose and Josh, from falling in love and the baby's first words to a horrifying court trial. And when their pasts come back to haunt them, each other is all they have while they face their darkest fears.

A Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week. "An epically exciting, utterly unique debut. Not to be missed." - William Hussey, author of Broken Hearts & Zombie Parts Sometimes, emotions can be a little too powerful... Seventeen-year-old Steven has a big problem... Whenever he feels intense emotions, weird things happen. Like when he kissed a boy for the first time, and the boy's head literally exploded. Fleeing to the miserable town of Grunsby-on-Sea, Steven is determined to not hurt anyone else - but he doesn't count on his best friend Freya, her boyfriend Marcus and American friend Troy following him. And when agents from the mysterious DEMA organisation show up talking about "neutralisation", Steven realises that Grunsby-on-Sea might not be the safe haven he'd hoped for... The first in a wholesome queer YA fantasy trilogy packed with magic, loveable characters and big plot twists from debut author DAVID FENNE. Perfect for fans of TJ Klune, Rainbow Rowell and Adam Silvera. "The fantasy drama of dreams. " - Lauren James, author of The Quiet at the End of the World (OVEREMOTIONAL by David Fenne was a Sunday Times Children's Book of the Week on 16/07/23)

"Trasandes eloquently renders the passionate and heartrending love story...it's rare to root for all sides of a love triangle, but the author's depth of insight into her characters makes this a wonderfully accomplished first novel."—Publisher's Weekly An unforgettably haunting novel—intertwining stories reveal how a man and a woman fall in love with the same extraordinary person Broken Like This by Monica Trasandes is the saga of Kate Harrington—who for the past fifteen years has been the muse, provocateur and lodestone in the lives of Louis Ross and Angela Agnelli. After a car accident in Ibiza, Kate lies comatose and is, unbeknownst to anyone, two months pregnant. Angela and Louis both fly to her side, as does Kate's step-father, who's been a dark presence in all of their lives for many years. Told in present day and breathtaking flashbacks, by turns bittersweet and brutally honest—this is a remarkable debut. What begins as an evocative story of love and identity evolves, faster and faster, into a high-scale drama—with a conclusion that is truly heartrending. From sunny, Southern California to the sweaty, musical streets of Brazil; from a garden in Boston to a rooftop in Brooklyn—Broken Like This is a rare novel that captures the utter joy felt when meeting that person whose energy and passion will shape your life forever.

From USA Today bestselling author, Jane Anthony, comes an edge-of-your-seat intense, hot romantic suspense brimming with rockstar attitude. Reclusive rock star. Notorious bad boy. Heir to a legacy. As lead guitarist for Savages in Ruin, Wyatt Blue had the world by the balls. Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll—life was a non-stop party, dripping in decadence ... until the day everything crashed and burned. On a rain-slicked stretch of highway, the Savages in Ruin tour bus flipped, leaving one sole survivor to handle the wreckage. Withdrawing to his mansion, Blue drowned his sorrows in the bottom of a bottle. Cold, distant, and incapable of love. Then, on the night he planned to end it all, a mysterious girl crossed his path, wild-eyed and drenched in blood. Blue took her in thinking he could save her. But he never expected she'd be the one saving him.

This isn't another "I hate you because I secretly love you" story. Boy really does hate girl. I don't believe in fairy tales and Prince Charming. I believe in fear. He taught me how to be afraid. We first met on a playground on a wonderful summer day. It was the first time he hurt me and it wouldn't be the last. For ten years, he's been my tormentor and I've been his forbidden. But then he went away, and yet I was still afraid. Now he's back and wants more than just my tears. You see...he thinks I sent him away so now he wants revenge...and he knows just how to get it.

Ever since they were kids, Ta’Leer and Melissa-Lex have had one dream: to become champions in the legendary sport of Steel Demons Versus Horrors. With high school behind them, the two friends set off on a journey that will take them across this and other worlds. Worlds where magic is common, animals speak, and stuffed animals are living beings. Together, Ta’Leer and Melissa-Lex will clash with titanic monsters in city-sized arenas, encounter the hardships of new romances, endure family problems, race through the skies aboard magical ships, and finally to battle for the crown of SDVH Champion. With friends by their sides, the fairytale story of Ta’Leer and Melissa-Lex begins now.

Emerson is a survivor. Literally. She is the only one remaining of a family that has always left her conflicted. As she says her final farewell to the brother that is her last living family member, she is thrust into the depth of all she has lost. Traumatized, she has no idea how to proceed. Her mental health is crumbling. Her marriage is shaky. And the foundation it was all built on, is a lie. As she navigates her way through the rest of her life, her emotions become her reality. Plagued by Shame, immersed in Grief, and haunted by Fear, Emerson trudges through. Despite her exhaustive efforts, her mind is a frantic and overwhelming place. She doesn’t feel safe. She doesn’t know what’s true. It becomes clear that the only option is to bring in experts. With their help Emerson overhauls her psyche, and discovers that sometimes the only way out, is through.

All of us have that one impossible highway in our lives, which we couldnt take inspite of its beauty and our love towards it. My Impossible Highway is a medley of poetic notes to the hurt psyche of a troubled past which all of us have kept shoved under the carpet of a convenient excuse Past is past!. After going through this, in the hidden despair of the poems you will find the serenity of a healed heart if you have a hurt past stifled within yourself that is forbidden to others; an abandoned path that could not be taken or a sorrow that cannot be shared.