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From Shadows to Light
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Feb 22 2026
Pages: 458
Weight: 1.34
Height: 1.02 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
From Shadows to Light
A Novel by Kisha Battle Houston and Shantel Minson
Shantel Minson's life looks stable from the outside.
Inside, she is unraveling.
Battling fibromyalgia and sarcoidosis while managing a Family Dollar store in Charleston, she wakes each day to a body that feels like a battlefield. The world around her pulses with color and movement, but her strength is fading. The grief of losing her father. The ache of a broken engagement. The quiet exhaustion of surviving instead of living.
Then she collapses.
In the sterile silence of a hospital room, something shifts. What begins as physical recovery becomes a reckoning of the soul. Shantel makes a covenant with herself - a Year of Reckoning - to reclaim her mind, body, and faith.
But transformation demands risk.
Leaving behind the familiar, she sets her sights on an audacious dream: cybersecurity in Northern Virginia. A leap that feels impossible. A move that terrifies her. A future that demands more strength than she believes she has.
With the steady support of her best friend Kish and an unexpected reconnection with Dr. Ron - the compassionate physician who once saw her beyond her diagnosis - Shantel begins to confront not only her illness, but the fear that has kept her small.
From Shadows to Light is a powerful psychological and emotional journey about chronic illness, resilience, faith, reinvention, and the courage to choose hope when darkness feels safer.
Because sometimes the greatest healing isn't physical.
It's believing you deserve more.
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