The Lighthouse Lie: A Small Town Cozy Mystery with Secrets, Lies, and a Talking Dog (The Sealight Cove Cozy Mysteries Book 1) She came to Sealight Cove for a quiet fresh start. What she found was murder… and a dog who talks. After walking away from the life she thought she wanted, Nora Hale arrives in the small coastal town of Sealight Cove hoping for peace, second chances, and a place to begin again. Instead, she finds a cozy candle shop, a town full of secrets, and Rufus, an unusually clever rescue dog with a habit of noticing things other people miss. Very unusual things. When a longtime local is found dead beneath the old lighthouse, the town quickly calls it a tragic accident. Rufus disagrees. And when Rufus starts sharing observations no ordinary dog should know, Nora begins to suspect the death was no accident at all. The deeper she digs, the more she uncovers buried grudges, missing records, and whispers about a decades-old dispute someone would kill to keep...
Laurel's Diary: A Memoir of Trauma, Intimacy, and the Work of Reclamation Laurel's Diary is a psychologically rigorous memoir that examines the long aftermath of sexual assault-not as a single event to be overcome, but as an ongoing condition that reshapes perception, intimacy, and moral judgment. Structured through diary entries, emails, and reflective prose, the book preserves the fragmented logic of trauma as it unfolds, resisting retrospective coherence or redemptive framing. Rather than charting a linear path toward healing, Laurel's Diary documents the work of reclamation as a process marked by negotiation rather than resolution. The narrative traces how agency, trust, and desire are slowly reassembled in the context of intimate relationships, where consent must be relearned in practice and safety is provisional rather than guaranteed. Particular attention is given to post-assault intimacy, illustrating how trauma persists not only in memory but in the body, i...