“Letting Wen’s words into my soul has changed my life. Her joy is palpable and hard won. They inspire me to trust myself more and to trust that voice more” – Carmen Riot Smith – Author, Editor

“Peetes writes with compassion and understanding, not just offering support, but enlisting readers in the act of it.” – Book Review, Publishers Weekly

“Reading this book was like a second-wind experience.  I felt excited about doing ‘the work’.  I felt excited about possibilities.”Elise Smith, Podcast host – How to disappoint your mother.

Overview:

Trash the lies you’re tempted to believe, Trauma Survivors. You are not worthless, you are not too damaged, and you are never too old to heal. Reclaim your power! You were born worthy of living the life you love – the life you never want to run away from.

If you’re stuck believing you’ll never heal from negative experiences, if you’re on your healing journey already, or if you simply dream of feeling good about yourself, Inner Child Healing is your Spring.

This self-reflective guide to overcoming trauma teaches:

• How Wen Peetes went from being flattened by the shame of childhood sexual and physical abuse to living her dreams.

• How to trade fear for hope and keep fighting as Warriors for your healing, your freedom!

• How to overcome feelings of low self-worth and negative thoughts, how to set boundaries, and how to speak up for yourself.

• How to stop self-criticism, stop doubting yourself, forgive yourself, and become the love of your life.

Whoever you are, Gladiator of Healing, if you are fed up with being stuck in the cycle of trauma, this book is for you!

When puberty brings on her first Shift, Missy goes into the mountains for two years until finally learning to Change back. She can Change from fully human in one instant to a mountain lion in the next. Everyone assumes her two year disappearance was because she’d been kidnapped by a sexual predator that she managed to kill.

She keeps her werecat nature a secret. There is no pack, no pride of other werecats and no alpha. She’s a girl with fantastic abilities growing up and learning to do great things in today’s world, amongst humans. She only has her instincts to guide her and those drive her to train herself to extremes. She must control those instincts; dampening the wild predator is often necessary. Her raging hormones and enhanced senses require very strong controls; she explores what happens when those controls are relaxed.

He is everything that’s not on her Perfect Man List so why can’t she resist him?

Lily Green lives by her daily to-do list. Lists have guided her through some of the darkest parts of her life. But none have prepared her for the bodyguard hired to protect her and the diamonds she’s working with. Grayson Warren is stubborn and pushes her to step outside the world she’s created for herself. He’s everything she doesn’t want. Or is he?

Desperate to save his ailing business, former Navy SEAL Grayson “Storm” Warren is willing to take on any job, including protecting an infuriating list-making lingerie designer. Tempting doesn’t even begin to describe Lily Green. One touch. One kiss, and Grayson’s protecting more than diamonds.

Can Grayson show Lily there’s more to life than lists?

In a world teetering on the brink of a medical revolution, Dr. Allison Perez stands at the vanguard with her groundbreaking creation: the Neuday nanocyte. This marvel of modern science promises a new dawn for those trapped in the twilight of degenerative brain diseases, offering the power to reawaken dormant neural pathways.

As the whisper of her nanocytes buzzes around the world, a more sinister plot unfurls. The owners of her laboratory, driven by greed, have a plan that doesn’t involve cures or care. It involves absolute control—control they will kill for.

Now a target in the deadly game of corporate espionage, Alli’s only ally is an enigmatic bodyguard who breaks his allegiance to shadowy employers to protect her. As he promises to protect her, Alli is haunted by more than her would-be assassins; she’s haunted by the memory of her deceased brother Justin and the sudden reappearance of his childhood friend—Carson, a man whose life suddenly threads through hers in ways she’s only beginning to understand.

As the line between friends and lovers blurs, Alli’s battle transcends the physical. Her fight is with the very technology she created. With every neuron she fires, every ally she trusts, and every secret she uncovers, Alli Perez must navigate the fog not just to save her own life, but to ensure the future freedom of the human mind.

Will Dr. Perez outsmart those who seek to silence her? Or will the Neuday’s dawn be eclipsed before it can break the horizon?

“Brain Fog” is a cerebral thriller that merges the cutting-edge of technology with the age-old anatomy of murder. It’s where the pulse of medical science meets the human heartbeat, and where one woman’s intellect is the only firewall against a ruthless enemy.

Ike Jaeger is off to college, earning a degree he may put to use colonizing Planet Valhalla, or designing a warp generator that will revolutionize time-space jumps. But he’s not going to let classes, studying, or homework distract him from what’s most important: football, hot rods, and girls.

Handpicked by Coach Stauchel, Ike steps into the limelight as the starting quarterback for the Yosemite Pumas. With the weight of the team’s aspirations on his shoulders, leading them to victory outweighs maintaining a low profile.

Scholarly pursuits may fail to interfere with gridiron glory, but unforeseen misadventures just might: a wrong turn into a postapocalyptic future, an ill-fated obsession with fighting in World War Two, and encounters with an array of vivacious vixens. Will the clairvoyant African prophetess in 1960 Sierra Leone capture his heart? What about the glamorous Hollywood hopeful in 1942, or the vampish Marxist professor teaching his political science class at Yosemite Polytechnic?

Ike escaped his own dystopian destiny, but Fate is a vindictive mistress, hell-bent on dragging him back into her cruel clutches. Will she gain revenge with a blind-side cheap shot by a hulking defensive lineman, by using communist occupational forces to blow his antique fighter plane out of the sky, or by exposing Ike as a time-traveling fugitive from an alternate reality to cross-continuum assassins?

Paradox is much more than a time-traveling rags-to-riches adventure. It’s the epic adventure of a boy who perhaps was never supposed to be presented a chance to strive for greatness…but was anyway. In Defying Fate, that boy is now an adult–but the journey to manhood is far from over.