The Light of Wounds

<p></p><p><strong>The universe is falling apart. So is Alex. She's trying to fix both.</strong></p><p></p><p>Forty-five half-drunk and facedown in Sedona's Oak Creek Alex Scott has seconds to decide if her life is worth fighting for.</p><p></p><p>What comes after is messier stranger and harder than any battle she's faced before. Sobriety. Shame. AA meetings with aggressive sponsors. A found family who responds to her worst moment by making eggs and talking about the local art fair.</p><p></p><p>Alex faces the slow uncomfortable work of learning that she might deserve to be okay.</p><p></p><p>But the world won't wait for her to heal. Her former billionaire boss JT equal parts Darth Vader cosplay and fecal catastrophe is rebuilding a machine that severs people from their spirit guides with a kidnapped scientist forced to do the work.</p><p></p><p>A murdered tech genius has uploaded his consciousness to the internet and declared his own war.</p><p></p><p>And the Spiritual Enterprise Network needs Alex back inside JT's Las Vegas casino face to face with the man who assaulted her before everything falls apart.</p><p></p><p><em>The Light of Wounds</em> is part recovery story part cosmic absurdist reckoning part unflinching portrait of a woman choosing herself for the first time.</p><p></p><p>The third book in Diane Hatz's Mind Monsters Series is for readers who like their visionary genre-bending fiction funny strange and emotionally true.</p><p></p><p><strong>Select Reviews</strong></p><p></p><p>The author is funny creative and spiritual.... This series is set up to have one explosive finale. Oh what big things are coming in book four! - <strong><em>Independent Book Review</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>A well-crafted and emotionally layered novel....Themes of resilience healing and the battle between light and darkness are woven through the narrative in a way that feels both urgent and emotionally resonant. </span><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0)>-<em>The International Review of Books</em></strong></p><p></p><p>Filled with thought-provoking insights about heroism choice spiritual direction and revelations about underlying psychological motivations and assumptions The Light of Wounds incorporates a force every bit as compelling as in Alex's previous encounters. - <strong><em>Midwest Book Review</em></strong></p><p></p><p><strong>The Mind Monsters Series</strong></p><p>Follow Alex's path from disconnection to remembrance across all four books. New to her world? Start with a free short story prequel at dianehatz.com.</p><p></p><p>Book 1: <em>Rock Gods & Messy Monsters</em> </p><p>Book 2: <em>Fallen Spirits</em> </p><p>Book 4: <em>The Journey Home</em></p>