Things That Break Us

<p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>SOME TRUTHS ONLY REVEAL THEMSELVES WHEN EVERYTHING ELSE FALLS APART.</strong></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Tessa Williams is doing everything right-at least on the surface. At twenty-five she's an American medical student fulfilling her father's dreams completing a clinical rotation in Botswana Africa. But beneath her polished exterior she's unraveling-haunted by an abusive relationship burdened by expectations and increasingly unsure of what she wants for herself.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A weekend escape to a remote safari lodge-and an unexpected connection with Corey Diallo her South African guide with grief of his own-changes everything. What begins as a chance encounter becomes something deeper forcing them both to confront the pain they've buried...and the lives they've been told to want.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Spanning twelve years and two continents </span><em style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Things That Break Us</em><span style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> is a sweeping emotional debut about the invisible wounds we all carry the expectations that shape us and the moments that define who we become.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>It's a novel that asks: </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>How do we let go of others' expectations to build the life we truly want?</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)> Not the one others planned for us. Not the one that looks good. But the one uniquely wildly and solely </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>ours</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(34 34 34 1)>.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=color: rgba(34 34 34 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Because sometimes...it takes being far from home to finally come home to yourself.</strong></p>