Kirjahaku

Lita Payne is a thirty-something beautiful, successful and engaging urban professional in the beautiful city of Chicago. On the surface, she truly appears to have it all. Her husband is a handsome Senior Executive for a construction company making well over six figures but Lita is definitely successful in her own right as Senior Fundraising Coordinator for a non-profit. She has three beautiful children, an amazing condo, luxury cars, full bank accounts and exciting, loving friendships. Now that Lita is in her 30s, she's starting to examine the lifestyle she's chosen for herself and wonders if it really makes her happy.Even though she is very successful in her career, her passion has always been to start her own marketing and public relations firm but her husband is not in support of it. Lita also feels her marriage has been lacking the passion and intimacy she desires. She begins to question the future of her marriage and what seems like it's out of the blue, she meets an intriguing man who challenges her on both a professional and personal level. This begins the start of Lita's personal journey through discovering who she really is amidst the persona she's so eloquently carved out for herself.Lita realizes that some of the challenges that are on the horizon for her causes her to seek various measures of coping, which in turn doesn't always lead to the most desirable outcomes. Between launching a new business, marital discord, the destruction of a close friendship, grief and loss, and past family secrets, Lita begins to strip away the layers of herself in order to find out who she really is in Discovering Lita.

A tender continuation of Serenity's journey-this intimate novella revisits her life five years later, as she navigates the lingering shadows and quiet stillness left in the wake of the pandemic's pause. Serenity Hayes has always known how to reinvent herself. After the powerful healing journey she began in Something New, she now finds herself standing at another crossroads-this time with more to lose and even more to uncover. Life in New York has offered her color, connection, and the space to rediscover joy-but a chance meeting, a long-held question about her mother's past, and a shift in her own desires leave her wondering: What does it mean to live in your truth when everything around you is changing? As Serenity reflects on the patterns she's outgrown and the people who have shaped her, she begins to recognize that freedom doesn't always mean starting over. Sometimes, it means going deeper. Sometimes, it means returning. With tender insight and emotional clarity, The More Things Change invites readers to follow Serenity as she sifts through memory, grief, passion, and possibility-to find what was always waiting within her: the strength to choose herself, wholly and without apology.