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In the tradition of The Year of Magical Thinking and The Glass Castle, Heidi Chandler's award-winning memoir is a deeply personal exploration of love, loss, motherhood, and the enduring bonds that shape us. 

When her otherwise healthy first pregnancy ends in the sudden and terrible stillbirth of daughter Avery, Heidi Chandler and her husband are left at a total loss. Looking into Avery’s perfect face, one that never cooed or cried, Heidi realizes how much her life has changed. 

 Holding Avery is a raw exploration of life after the death of a child. Heidi Chandler unapologetically recounts her heartache — the fears and doubts that come with knowing she is a mother but without a child to care for. The unabashed honesty of her grief will resonate with anyone who has experienced loss and found that the question why? may always go unanswered. But Heidi learns that moving through the tragedy is not impossible.

Holding Avery: A Memoir is currently available on Amazon as well as Powell's, Books-A-Million, Walmart, and other major booksellers worldwide. 

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Everyone in Stoneham remembers the night sixteen-year-old Olivia Jane Jeffers was murdered. It was a horrific crime that rocked the sleepy Lake Michigan town, shattering the illusion that such a perfect place was immune to evil. The case was never solved.

More than a decade later, Charlie Jeffers—Olivia’s older sister—has left her life in Stoneham behind, building a careful existence as a detective in the quaint college town of East Branch, a place where stealing bicycles is the biggest crime. Her life has become safe. Predictable. Controlled. Until a college student is found murdered. The victim bears an unsettling resemblance to Olivia, and as Charlie is drawn further into the investigation, the similarities become impossible to ignore. What begins as a routine case soon forces her to confront the secrets she’s spent years running from and the terrifying possibility that Olivia’s killer wasn’t finished. 

Packed with shocking twists, buried secrets, and gripping family drama, Another Girl Gone is a haunting psychological thriller about guilt, redemption, and how hard it is to truly know a person.