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 One Life

TO LIVE

Debut Novel by Athena Barnim

One Life 
 TO LIVE

“I never stopped loving you, I just stopped listening to my heart”

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Jenna Davis is returning to Balsam River after six years away, when she was busy going to school and working in the city. She left after the death of one of her best friends and sister in law, Amy Ryan. Her brother and newborn niece left town to cope with their grief, and the Ryan’s seemed to have needed their own time and space to grieve their sister.

But she’s been missing something all these years and she’s sure the only place she’ll find it is….at home.

A twist in her plans comes in the form of a connection she didn’t realize she was missing and it might be the one she wants to rebuild the most.

Will another tragedy tear her life apart again just when she thinks all the pieces have come back together?

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“You can drown in your grief or you can turn it into love. Love for life, love for the people you have left and love for yourself. Love yourself enough to carry on.”

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About the Author

Athena is a homeschooling mom and wife from Ontario, Canada.

She believes being the youngest of 8, in a close knit, farming family is why she values the love of family and friends above everything else.

She lives with her high school sweetheart turned husband and 3 kids on his family’s horse farm and couldn’t have dreamed up a better place to raise her family.

She can be found on their back deck reading or writing with coffee in hand any time of day….. as long as it’s after 9am.

Growing up with her only sister as her best friend in a house with 6 brothers created an unbreakable bond, hair pulling excluded. Even after her sisters untimely death her connection to her lives on, even in her absence she was the inspiration behind writing her first book.

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From the Ashes
By Athena Barnim

Available now to pre-order on Amazon!
Releasing May 1, 2024!

The second book in the Balsam River series, follows Sara and Jack as they learn that hope and love, can follow the hardest days of our lives. 
They struggle through old losses and new ones, while trying to find a peace they may only find with each other.

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