Breaking the Shadows: Luna's Path to Healing. Life is a Story - story.one

Breaking the Shadows: Luna's Path to Healing. Life is a Story - story.one
Author: ACWstories
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Total Pages: 73
Release: 2024-08-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 371153788X

In this compelling follow-up to "Surviving the Shadows", ACW continues Lunas harrowing journey in "Breaking the Shadows: Luna's Path to Healing". After escaping an abusive childhood, Luna faces new challenges when a night out at a club leads to a traumatic assault. Struggling with confusion and pain, she turns to her therapist for help, only to find herself spiraling into destructive behaviors like drinking, partying and drugs. As Lunas life unravels further with a devastating betrayal, she reaches a turning point. With the support of therapy and a newfound commitment to self-care, Luna begins to rebuild her life, learning to trust again and finding strength within herself. Breaking the Shadows is a poignant exploration of trauma and recovery, offering hope and resilience for those navigating their own paths to healing.

The Night and Its Moon

The Night and Its Moon
Author: Piper CJ
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2022-09-20
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728270693

An addictive fantasy romance from TikTok sensation Piper CJ, now newly revised and edited. Two orphans grow into powerful young women as they face countless threats to find their way back to each other. Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place — while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as they take up new lives and identities, Nox and Amaris never forget one thing: they will stop at nothing to reunite. But the threat of war looms overhead, and the two are inevitably swept into a conflict between human and fae, magic and mundane. With strange new alliances, untested powers, and a bond that neither time nor distance could possibly break, the fate of the realms lies in the hands of two orphans — and the love they hold for each other.

Broken Mate

Broken Mate
Author: Jen L. Grey
Publisher:
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2021-10-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781955616126

Some things are inevitable, even with a fated mate. As the future alpha of the Silver Wolves, my life was carefully planned: stay hidden and learn to fight. But that didn't happen. My pack was slaughtered and now I'm running for my life. In my search for safety, I discover something else. My fated mate. The handsome jerk alpha can offer me something that no one else can--protection. The more I try to fight our mate bond, the more fate pushes us together, but I fear the price may be too much for both of us. As a hidden enemy hunts me, difficult decisions must be made. Choices that will alter my life forever or end it completely.

Cast in Sorrow

Cast in Sorrow
Author: Michelle Sagara
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2013-08-27
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1460318129

THE END OF HER JOURNEY IS ONLY THE BEGINNING… The Barrani would be happy to see her die. So Kaylin Neya is a bit surprised by her safe arrival in the West March. Especially when enemies new and old surround her and those she would call friends are equally dangerous… And then the real trouble starts. Kaylin's assignment is to be a "harmoniste"—one who helps tell the truth behind a Barrani Recitation. But in a land where words are more effective than weapons, Kaylin's duties are deadly. With the wrong phrase she could tear a people further asunder. And with the right ones…well, then she might be able to heal a blight on a race. If only she understood the story….

Things Left Unsaid

Things Left Unsaid
Author: Courtney Walsh
Publisher: Christian Series Level I (24)
Total Pages: 500
Release: 2019-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781643580876

Lyndie St. James is thrilled that her best friend, Elle, is getting married, but unprepared for the emotional storm of the wedding week and returning to her childhood summer home of Sweethaven. The idyllic cottage community harbors some of her best -- and worst -- memories. It's not only the tragic death of her childhood friend Cassie that has haunted her for ten years, it's the other secrets she's buried that have kept her from moving on.

Winter's Absolution

Winter's Absolution
Author: Kristina Canady
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 452
Release: 2017-06-07
Genre:
ISBN: 9781548152901

***Warning. This book is for mature audiences only and has many triggers including strong language, sexual/fetish content and rape/ abuse flashbacks. This is a work of fiction about surviving and is not for the faint of heart. *** This is an MC Romance with dark edges...Reality can be more terrifying than the strange tales that sometimes circulate. When inky blackness creeps and crawls into every internal recess of a human being, it can be a recipe for living hell on earth.But sometimes, even in the most desolate, frigid terrains... absolution can be found.LunaSerpent tongues, slithering all around, hissing violent, toxic things, choking the very life out of me... There is no light here, yet I cling to a formless hope that may not even exist. Even as this personal prison tries to wring the last bit of breath from my cold body, I can't help but think that a lifeline will be thrown to me through the barrage of taunting shadows that tempt me with whisperings to simply end it myself.LeoThe voices of past deeds and experiences never stop, no matter how hard I work to get over the scarred bits that are always on the verge of being picked open like a sore that will never heal. Most days, I'd rather bang my head into a concrete slab until they all just shut the fuck up. That all stopped the day I found her, a broken, quivering mess who was afraid to leave my property. Her personal demons shone through her sunken eyes, and I knew I had found someone familiar. She scared me to death, but through her, my purpose in this godforsaken world came into focus. She needed me to be a beacon... to show her the way out of the desolate pit of hell that I had only recently figured out how to climb out of.

Callings

Callings
Author: Gregg Michael Levoy
Publisher: Harmony
Total Pages: 349
Release: 1998-09-08
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 0609803700

How do we know if we're following our true callings? How do we sharpen our senses to cut through the distractions of everyday reality and hear the calls that are beckoning us? is the first book to examine the many kinds of calls we receive and the great variety of channels through which they come to us. A calling may be to do something (change careers, go back to school, have a child) or to be something (more creative, less judgmental, more loving). While honoring a calling's essential mystery, this book also guides readers to ask and answer the fundamental questions that arise from any calling: How do we recognize it? How do we distinguish the true call from the siren song? How do we handle our resistance to a call? What happens when we say yes? What happens when we say no? Drawing on the hard-won wisdom and powerful stories of people who have followed their own calls, Gregg Levoy shows us the many ways to translate a calling into action. In a style that is poetic, exuberant, and keenly insightful, he presents an illuminating and ultimately practical inquiry into how we listen and respond to our calls, whether at work or at home, in our relationships or in service. Callings is a compassionate guide to discovering your own callings and negotiating the tight passages to personal power and authenticity.

The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)

The Girl Who Drank the Moon (Winner of the 2017 Newbery Medal)
Author: Kelly Barnhill
Publisher: Algonquin Young Readers
Total Pages: 295
Release: 2016-08-09
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 161620656X

With more than a million copies sold, Newbery Medal winner The Girl Who Drank the Moon is a must-read for fans of classic children's literature or timeless fantasy fables. Every year, the people of the Protectorate leave a baby as an offering to the witch who lives in the forest. They hope this sacrifice will keep her from terrorizing their town. But the witch in the Forest, Xan, is kind. She shares her home with a wise Swamp Monster and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon. Xan rescues the children and delivers them to welcoming families on the other side of the forest, nourishing the babies with starlight on the journey. One year, Xan accidentally feeds a baby moonlight instead of starlight, filling the ordinary child with extraordinary magic. Xan decides she must raise this girl, whom she calls Luna, as her own. As Luna’s thirteenth birthday approaches, her magic begins to emerge—with dangerous consequences. Meanwhile, a young man from the Protectorate is determined to free his people by killing the witch. Deadly birds with uncertain intentions flock nearby. A volcano, quiet for centuries, rumbles just beneath the earth’s surface. And the woman with the Tiger’s heart is on the prowl . . . After you finish The Girl Who Drank the Moon, look for Kelly Barnhill's latest wondrous fantasy for young readers, The Ogress and the Orphans!

Dangerous Play

Dangerous Play
Author: Emma Kress
Publisher: Roaring Brook Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2021-08-03
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 1250750490

A fierce team of girls takes back the night in this propulsive, electrifying, and high-stakes YA debut from Emma Kress Zoe Alamandar has one goal: win the State Field Hockey Championships and earn a scholarship that will get her the hell out of Central New York. She and her co-captain Ava Cervantes have assembled a fierce team of dedicated girls who will work hard and play by the rules. But after Zoe is sexually assaulted at a party, she finds a new goal: make sure no girl feels unsafe again. Zoe and her teammates decide to stop playing by the rules and take justice into their own hands. Soon, their suburban town has a team of superheroes meting out punishments, but one night of vigilantism may cost Zoe her team, the championship, her scholarship, and her future. Perfect for fans who loved the female friendships of Jennifer Mathieu’s Moxie and the bite of Courtney Summer’s Sadie.

Perfectly You

Perfectly You
Author: Claudia Burgoa
Publisher: Claudia Burgoa
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2022-03-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

USA TODAY Bestselling Author Claudia Burgoa brings us a light-hearted small-town romantic comedy full of a swoon-worthy billionaire, single dad romance and big laughs. Perfect is impossible but they might’ve found it. I need a massive break. So long to my cheating boyfriend and betraying roommate. Goodbye hectic emergency room and long hours. When I get an opportunity to take over my grandfather’s medical practice in Luna Harbor I happily accept the chance to try on a new life that holds sweet memories. But I can barely think about anything at all when the new coffee shop/bar next to my practice always seems to be having an impromptu concert. Who sets up a coffee and a bar in the same location as a music venue? Fisher Hannigan, Head Man Child (ok, bassist) of the band Too Far From Grace, that’s who. He’s also the man who can’t stop flirting with me every time we meet. He’s having the time of his life, while I’m trying to run a quiet medical practice. Even though he infuriates me, our chemistry is off the charts and I can’t say I haven’t thought about giving him a full physical exam. Until a baby changes everything.