Something Survived Midnight: An Adult Fairy Tale About Trauma, Survival, and the Woman Underneath It All
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Series: Becoming, Book 1
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ISBN13: 9798189797798
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 6 2026
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.72
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Every fairy tale has a midnight. But what happens when midnight doesn't end the story? For years, Melissa believed her life had already been written. Abuse wrote the first chapters.
Shame filled the margins.
Addiction turned the pages.
Prison became the chapter she thought would define the rest of the story. Along the way, she learned how to become whatever survival required-the strong one, the pleaser, the invisible one, the woman desperate to be chosen. Each version of her served a purpose. Each helped her survive. Until the very things that once protected her began keeping her from living. Something Survived Midnight is an adult fairy tale about trauma, survival, identity, and the difficult journey of discovering the woman underneath all the versions we become just to make it through. This is not the story of a princess waiting for someone to rescue her. It is the story of a woman looking back at the little girl she once was, honoring the women she became along the way, and discovering that midnight was never proof that her story was over. Because when everything else fell away... something survived. And maybe something survived in you, too.
Shame filled the margins.
Addiction turned the pages.
Prison became the chapter she thought would define the rest of the story. Along the way, she learned how to become whatever survival required-the strong one, the pleaser, the invisible one, the woman desperate to be chosen. Each version of her served a purpose. Each helped her survive. Until the very things that once protected her began keeping her from living. Something Survived Midnight is an adult fairy tale about trauma, survival, identity, and the difficult journey of discovering the woman underneath all the versions we become just to make it through. This is not the story of a princess waiting for someone to rescue her. It is the story of a woman looking back at the little girl she once was, honoring the women she became along the way, and discovering that midnight was never proof that her story was over. Because when everything else fell away... something survived. And maybe something survived in you, too.
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