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Threads of Purpose
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Publisher Price: $16.99
Publisher: Bumbershoot Press
Published: Jun 23 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Threads of Purpose: A Novel of Justice, Awakening, and Second Chances
Asher Tidwell, a gifted medical resident in Houston, sees his future unravel after a chain of unintended decisions leads to a capital murder charge. Thrust into an American justice system shaped as much by punishment as by principle, he is forced to confront not only the consequences of his actions, but the cultural assumptions he once held about success, failure, and who deserves redemption.
While awaiting trial, Asher turns inward-discovering meditation and Buddhist philosophy as a way to make sense of a life stripped of certainty. In the stillness, he begins to question the values he once accepted without thought: achievement at all costs, identity defined by status, and a system that often leaves little room for grace.
An unexpected and deeply romantic connection forms with his lawyer, a woman twenty years his senior, drawing him into a space of vulnerability and emotional truth he has long avoided.
Yet as his world narrows, another truth emerges: a long-buried calling to become a fashion designer. Faced with the weight of his circumstances, Asher must ask whether purpose can still be reclaimed-or whether some paths, once lost, are gone forever.
Threads of Purpose is a contemplative literary novel exploring justice, identity, spirituality, and the fragile possibility of beginning again-while quietly questioning the cultural forces that shape who we are allowed to become.
Why I Wrote Threads of Purpose
I wrote Threads of Purpose because I've come to understand something simple, yet easy to ignore: tomorrow is not promised. Too often, we move through life assuming there will always be more time-to change, to grow, to become who we're meant to be.
But life doesn't always wait.
The choices we make-especially the ones made under pressure, fear, or distraction-carry consequences we don't always see coming. Those unintended consequences can quietly shape our path, sometimes delaying us from stepping into our true purpose.
Through Asher's journey, I wanted to explore what happens when everything falls apart-and whether that collapse might actually be the beginning of something deeper. His story is about reckoning, stillness, and the difficult but necessary work of looking inward.
Meditation and Buddhist wisdom taught me that clarity doesn't come from controlling life-it comes from sitting with it. From being still long enough to see what is true.
This novel is my way of inviting readers to pause, reflect, and ask themselves: Am I living the life I was meant to live-or am I postponing it?
Because purpose isn't something we find someday.
It's something we choose-right now.
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