Identity Loss

Are you struggling with unpredictable waves of sadness, anger, or numbness? Do you wonder if your way of grieving is “normal”—or if you’ll ever feel like yourself again? Grief Recovery After Loss is your real-world healing guide. Backed by research and filled with relatable stories, this book helps you restore your body, rediscover your identity, and rebuild relationships—without pressure, judgment, or clichés.

Although a mother's mortality is inevitable, no book has discussed the profound lasting and far reaching effects of this loss until Motherless Daughters. More than 20 years later, it is still the go-to book that women of all ages look to for comfort, help, and understanding when their mother dies. Building on interviews with hundreds of mother-loss survivors, Edelman's personal story of losing her mother, and recent research in grief and psychology, Motherless Daughters reveals the shared experiences and core identity issues of motherless women.

Sun Shining on Morning Snow is a fearless and deeply moving memoir that celebrates the power of authenticity, love, and resilience. Ingrid Hu Dahl, a mixed-race, queer woman, takes listeners on an intimate journey through the challenges of self-discovery—navigating the weight of social, cultural, and familial expectations.

Former Army brat Morgan Albright has finally planted roots in a friendly neighborhood near Baltimore. Her friend and roommate Nina helps her make the mortgage payments, as does Morgan's job as a bartender. But after she and Nina host their first dinner party—attended by Luke, the flirtatious IT guy who'd been chatting her up at the bar—her carefully built world is shattered. The back door glass is broken, cash and jewelry are missing, her car is gone, and Nina lies dead on the floor.

Though Michelle Miller was an award-winning broadcast journalist for CBS News, few people in her life knew the painful secret she carried: her mother had abandoned her at birth. Los Angeles in 1967 was deeply segregated, and her mother—a Chicana hospital administrator who presented as white, had kept her affair with Michelle’s father, Dr. Ross Miller, a married trauma surgeon and Compton’s first Black city councilman—hidden, along with the unplanned pregnancy. Raised largely by her father and her paternal grandmother, Michelle had no knowledge of the woman whose genes she shared. Then, fate intervened when Michelle was twenty-two. As her father lay stricken with cancer, he told her, “Go and find your mother.”

A work of psychological literary fiction that lingers in the mind, exploring what vanishes when memory, silence, and reality itself begin to fracture. A haunting literary novel about the quiet unraveling of reality—and the people who remain behind. They say the creatures come after moments of stillness. After something shifts. After someone leaves. No one knows exactly what they are. No one dares to speak of them for long. But when they arrive, they don’t just bring destruction—they erase. Places vanish. Conversations dissolve. People forget what was once solid. At the center of this ...

She looks exactly like me. Same face, same scar, same life. And now she's stealing everything that's mine. When Madisyn Holmes moves in across the street, I can't shake the feeling that this isn't coincidence. She copies my garden design, my home décor, even my professional strategies. It's like watching someone erase me in real time. My husband thinks I'm paranoid. My neighbors think I'm losing it. But I know what I'm seeing. I start gathering evidence—photos, notes, proof of her systematic theft. Because someone has to stop her before she takes everything. The question is: how far will...

Claudia Shephard’s husband died in a fire. Everyone says it was tragic. Accidental. She doesn't remember much—just smoke, panic, the way her lungs burned as she ran. But three weeks after the funeral, a manuscript arrives on her doorstep. A book she didn’t write. A book that describes, in disturbingly intimate detail, her husband’s affair… and the precise steps she took to murder him. It’s written in her voice. With her quirks. Her phrases. Her secrets. And page by page, Claudia feels her grip on reality begin to unravel. As whispers swirl through their coastal town and friends ...

In a near-future economy built on desperation, people can rent out their bodies while they sleep. A neural implant allows corporations and wealthy clients to “lease” a body for work, pleasure, or crime—while the owner rests, earning much-needed income. It’s marketed as safe, regulated, and anonymous. But when one woman wakes up after a lease and finds her body covered in blood, bruises, and strange tattoos, she realizes her body was used for something far darker than she agreed to.

When our circumstances unravel, how do we hold on to truth, to hope, to who we’re meant to be? After Carole Holiday experienced a series of heartbreaking losses, she realized something else had slipped away: her identity. Grief had stolen her sense of self, leaving her feeling unmoored and empty. But it was not the end of her story. Her debut book, I Don’t Know Who I Am Anymore,is for the wanderers, the waylaid, the wavering. The ones who feel weak and worthless. The ones who weep.

Your body is supposed to be yours. Until it isn't. Twenty tales of flesh that betrays, bones that remember, and skin that holds secrets too terrible to speak. In these pages, the human form becomes the ultimate battleground between self and something far more sinister. A woman's reflection grows more real while she fades away. A fitness tracker begins optimizing its wearer without permission. A heart transplant recipient discovers the donor isn't quite dead. A mother's body produces nourishment that isn't meant for feeding. From medical procedures gone wrong to parasites that rewrite your ...

She believed in fresh starts. He needed one more than he knew. After years of quiet dedication to her grandmother’s boat tour business, Abby Rhodes had everything she needed in the cozy lake town of Forager Cove—except a reason to believe in love again. But the day a mysterious man collapsed on her boat and lost all memory of who he was, everything began to shift. He called himself John at first. Gentle, grateful, a little lost. Abby never expected to fall for him—or to discover his real name was Cade Ashton, heir to a luxury hotel empire and a past he couldn’t outrun. As seasons ...

In 2014, Francis Fukuyama wrote that American institutions were in decay, as the state was progressively captured by powerful interest groups. Two years later, his predictions were borne out by the rise to power of a series of political outsiders whose economic nationalism and authoritarian tendencies threatened to destabilize the entire international order. These populist nationalists seek direct charismatic connection to “the people”, who are usually defined in narrow identity terms that offer an irresistible call to an in-group and exclude large parts of the population as a whole.

Nothing is as it seems. A man wakes in a dilapidated apartment, hooked to a strange machine, with a dead body in the next room—and no memory of who he is or how he got there. As he unravels the mystery of his identity over the next forty-eight hours, he discovers he may be one of the most influential figures of the twenty-first century. But the deeper he digs, the more he realizes that some truths are better left untouched.

The ocean keeps its secrets well, but sometimes the tide brings back what was meant to stay lost forever. On a fog-shrouded morning in the coastal town of Crescent Bay, the sea delivered its most mysterious gift yet—a young woman with no memory and a priceless necklace that would unlock a conspiracy twenty years in the making. This is her story. This is the story of the Sapphire Swan.

Forever, for always. For all of time. That’s what they thought. Little did they know, Dominic would never get the chance at for all of time. Now, not only is Adaline the number one suspect in her husband’s murder, but she's also next on Vincent Rossi’s hit list. She has no choice but to change her identity and go on the run to protect the only piece of Dominic she has left. Four years and several cities behind her, Adaline is now Vada Bruno, a mother desperate to keep her young son safe. Isaac, a Miami police officer, is immediately drawn to Vada the moment he meets her in Carlos’s ...

It’s all about the money. Maybe for some, but I’m not interested. I’d rather work with my hands than spend the billions my father left behind. The only thing that interests me is the apple orchard he left me. The old thing needs work, and I plan to make it beyond successful. What I didn’t expect to find between the rows of juicy red apples was a yearning for more. A beautiful single-mom teacher shows up to take her kiddos on a tour of the orchard and I feel things I haven’t felt in a long time. Mine. Every cell in my body wakes up with a desire for the strong, independent woman ...

A therapy session in paperback. A laugh-out-loud survival manual. A mirror for every mother who’s ever said, “I’m fine,” when she’s not. MOM AF is not your typical motherhood memoir. It’s a brutally honest, emotionally charged, and painfully funny look at what it really means to mother, partner, and survive in a world that demands perfection from Black women and working moms. Through unfiltered stories about Chick-fil-A breakdowns, wine-fueled dinners, racial code-switching, toxic in-laws, and marriage fatigue, Christine Michel Carter delivers a voice so raw it could only come ...

Jen Conrad thought she knew who she was… she was wrong. Newly widowed Jen Conrad finds solace in a vodka bottle until Renee, her best friend and the mayor of San Diego, volunteers her for an artistic project. Heritage Park, a community of seven historic homes, needs a makeover, and Jen is the perfect socialite for such a fundraiser. Although Jen desires a fresh start, the grief of losing her husband, the exasperation that stems from her uppity family, and the towering bills are enough to keep her in bed forever. Not to mention a tragic event from 1969 that refuses to free its talons from ...

Her job is to edit your trauma. Her life is a meticulously constructed lie. In the hallowed, ivy-clad halls of the Acheron Institute, Dr. Lyra Solis is a prodigy, gifted with the unique ability to enter her patients' minds and rewrite their most agonizing memories. But when her brilliant mentor is found dead—an apparent suicide she knows is murder—her sanctuary becomes a gilded cage of secrets. As Lyra hunts for the truth, she is haunted by fractured memories that don't feel like her own. The killer, she discovers, is using her own revolutionary techniques to erase evidence from the ...