The More Things Change

A tender continuation of Serenity's journey-this intimate novella revisits her life five years later, as she navigates the lingering shadows and quiet stillness left in the wake of the pandemic's pause.

Serenity Hayes has always known how to reinvent herself. After the powerful healing journey she began in Something New, she now finds herself standing at another crossroads-this time with more to lose and even more to uncover.

Life in New York has offered her color, connection, and the space to rediscover joy-but a chance meeting, a long-held question about her mother's past, and a shift in her own desires leave her wondering: What does it mean to live in your truth when everything around you is changing?

As Serenity reflects on the patterns she's outgrown and the people who have shaped her, she begins to recognize that freedom doesn't always mean starting over. Sometimes, it means going deeper. Sometimes, it means returning.

With tender insight and emotional clarity, The More Things Change invites readers to follow Serenity as she sifts through memory, grief, passion, and possibility-to find what was always waiting within her: the strength to choose herself, wholly and without apology.