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The Girl Who Had Nowhere to Go: A Bhakti House Story
Paperback
Series: The Bhakti House Stories
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 19 2026
Pages: 138
Weight: 0.39
Height: 0.35 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
She had fifty-eight dollars, half a tank of gas, and nowhere left to go.
Twenty-year-old Mara Velez has spent eleven freezing November nights sleeping in her car. She tells herself she can simply keep driving-south, west, anywhere people don't know her name.
Then she finds a book in a neighborhood book box in Jackson, Michigan.
Inside is a handwritten message:
You do not have to know everything before you take one sincere step.
That single step leads Mara somewhere she never expected: The Bhakti House, a spiritual community filled with kirtan, prasadam, questions about Krishna, imperfect people, and a kind of generosity she doesn't know how to trust.
There she meets Adrian, an electrical apprentice whose humor hides wounds of his own. She also discovers an unexpected connection to Marisol-the mother whose addiction and absence shaped much of Mara's childhood.
But this isn't a story about miraculous fixes.
Mara still needs work. Counseling. A safe place to live. Boundaries. Time.
And gradually she begins to understand something far more difficult than independence:
Receiving help does not make you weak. Gratitude is not a debt. Love is not ownership. And sometimes having somewhere to go begins with allowing someone to know your name.
The Girl Who Had Nowhere to Go is a tender Bhakti House story about healing, spiritual discovery, family, boundaries, community, service, and the quiet courage required to stay.
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