Mud to Moonlight

🌙 Mud to Moonlight: A Restorative Novel of Rebirth, Rest, and Revolution

When the world burns out your spirit, sometimes the only way forward is softer.

After a decade of performing calm for everyone else, Maris—a corporate wellness strategist who forgot how to breathe—returns to her late grandmother’s crumbling farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. She calls it a strategic retreat. The universe calls it an intervention.

Armed with nothing but a box of candles, an overused laptop, and a nervous system fried on capitalism, Maris sets out to remember what peace feels like. But the house she inherits—affectionately called Sanctuary—has its own agenda. It creaks. It hums. It remembers. And as the days stretch into winter, Maris begins to notice small miracles taking shape: lost earrings reappear, storms time themselves to her emotions, and the silence starts answering back.

Through community gardens, ancestral dreams, and one snowed-in evening that changes everything, Mud to Moonlight follows a woman learning that rest is not retreat—it’s rebellion. Along the way, Maris rediscovers joy, humor, and sensuality—the pieces of her aliveness she once traded for productivity.

Told in lush, intimate prose and filled with biting wit, kitchen-table spirituality, and the quiet power of Black womanhood, Mud to Moonlight is both a novel and a spell. It’s a love letter to those who are tired of performing strength, a manual for soft survival, and a testament to the kind of peace that hums louder than ambition.

💫 You’ll Love This Book If You’ve Ever:

• Needed to unlearn hustle culture without losing your edge

• Wanted to rest without guilt

• Felt haunted by ancestors who demand naps, not perfection

• Been the “strong one” everyone calls when they’re falling apart

• Needed a reminder that softness is still power

🕯️ Themes & Vibes

✨ Black femininity & ancestral healing
✨ Rest as revolution & economic self-reclamation
✨ Cozy magick, spirituality, and slow living
✨ Humor, sensuality, and rebirth through stillness
✨ Found family, friendship, and everyday miracles

💬 Early Readers Say:

“Like Toni Morrison meets Octavia Butler at a wellness retreat.”
“I laughed, cried, and exhaled for the first time in months.”
“Every line felt like therapy with better lighting.”

Mud to Moonlight is more than a novel—it’s a spiritual technology disguised as a story. A mirror for anyone learning to be human again after survival. A gentle revolution in paperback form.