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This Life of Mine
Paperback
Mystery & ThrillerGeneral Fiction
ISBN13: 9781735875842
Publisher: Norma Garay
Published: Aug 1 2026
Pages: 522
Weight: 1.32
Height: 1.16 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Lina has spent her life surviving.
Surviving betrayal. Surviving loss. Surviving the kind of love that asks a woman to disappear piece by piece until she no longer recognizes herself.
For years, survival was enough.
Then everything changed.
After walking away from a marriage built on lies, control, and heartbreak, Lina painstakingly rebuilds her life from the ground up. What begins as starting over becomes something far greater. She creates a thriving bookstore and tea room, surrounds herself with loyal friends who feel more like family, and discovers a strength she never knew she possessed.
For the first time in her life, she isn't simply surviving.
She's living.
Or at least she thinks she is.
When long-buried secrets begin resurfacing and a series of unsettling events threatens the future she's fought so hard to build, Lina is forced to confront a painful truth: the past isn't finished with her yet.
The damage she endured wasn't accidental.
It was deliberate.
As old wounds reopen and hidden connections begin to emerge, Lina finds herself pulled into a web of deception, family secrets, and betrayals that stretch far deeper than she ever imagined. The more she uncovers, the clearer it becomes that someone has spent years protecting the truth.
And someone is willing to do anything to keep it buried.
With danger closing in and the lines between past and present beginning to blur, Lina must navigate a world where trust comes at a cost and every answer seems to raise new questions. At the same time, an unexpected connection challenges everything she believes about love, vulnerability, and her own worth.
For a woman who has spent her entire life putting everyone else first, the greatest challenge may not be uncovering the truth.
It may be choosing herself.
Rich with emotion, resilience, friendship, betrayal, family drama, mystery, and hope, This Life of Mine is a powerful story about reclaiming your voice, confronting the ghosts of the past, and discovering that healing isn't about forgetting what happened.
It's about refusing to let it define you.
Because sometimes the greatest act of courage isn't surviving.
It's choosing to live.
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