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Plus One
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 9 2026
Pages: 58
Weight: 0.20
Height: 0.12 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Based on the song written by Karen Givens-Plus One is a story about self-abandonment, hard truths, and the cost of loving someone who is lost within themselves.
Kenny wasn't a bad man-he was a disappointed one.
Burdened by the weight of his own unmet expectations, he begins making choices rooted in avoidance instead of growth. What starts as quiet frustration with his life slowly unravels into decisions that don't just affect him-they ripple into the life he was building with Dawn.
Then comes the consequence neither of them planned: an unexpected pregnancy that changes everything.
Dawn, trying to be understanding, does what she has always done-she adjusts. She makes space. She softens her needs. She convinces herself that love sometimes looks like stepping back so the person you care about can find their way forward.
But in doing so, she begins to disappear.
Plus One is a powerful, emotionally raw story about what happens when a woman confuses loyalty with self-sacrifice. It explores the impact of unresolved personal failure, the damage of avoidance, and the quiet ways women lose themselves trying to love men back to life.
Because sometimes the hardest realization isn't that someone else changed-it's that you abandoned yourself trying to keep them.
And sometimes... being the plus one is the moment you decide you deserve to be chosen, too.
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