About The Book

Neva Stephenson has spent the past twenty-five years regretting the day her family fell apart and most of her decisions that came after. The knowledge that those decisions left lasting scars on her children, which led to their dysfunctional lives as adults, has been her own private hell. She would do anything to get them to change their lives for the better before it’s too late.

But is there a limit to the influence a mother should have over the lives of their adult children?

Neva is about to find out. She’s got a trunk full of guilt, a bank account full of money, and a plan to get rid of both- by delivering the “mother” of all ultimatums. 

Will her three grown children be willing to accept her meddling and take her up on it, or are some truths too hard to face?

Fiction |  Literary Fiction |  Women’s Fiction  |  Family

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Titles In Development

SMALL TOWN AMERICA

Three Book Series

Going Home- Book 1

When a successful Hollywood screenwriter is summoned back to her childhood home to handle the estate of her deceased father, she is forced to deal with a past and a present that rivals the fiction she writes for Hollywood.
Women’s Fiction

Release Date: Winter 2025

THE LAST BUDDHA

Three Book Series

Prophesy – Book 1

An evil sect hunts down a woman prophesied to become the mother of humankind’s last savior.
Speculative Fiction – Thriller

Release Date: Summer 2026