The Advent & Undoing of Felona Mabel

Felona Mabel has spent three years trying to rebuild what the fire took from her, finally finding a fragile peace with her mother and a life that feels almost steady. At thirty-five, she is caring for Dianne as she manages the quiet assassin of lupus, all while writing a PhD dissertation on the intergenerational trauma she is living through. She believes she has found a rhythm she can hold.

Then Autumn Willows arrives. A spirited sixteen-year-old ward of the state, Autumn carries storms that hide a fractured heart, one that mirrors Felona’s more closely than she expects. What begins as an unexpected connection becomes a return to everything Felona thought she had outgrown, and the life she rebuilt begins to shift. New pressures rise, buried truths surface, and the space between what she knows and what grief demands grows harder to ignore.

When catastrophe tears their fragile village apart, Felona must confront whether she is finally ready to stop running from the idea of being needed. To save a child who is not biologically hers and reclaim her future, she must find the courage in her undoing so that something infinite can begin.

A story of inheritance, motherhood, healing, and the quiet bravery of choosing love, The Advent & Undoing of Felona Mabel continues Felona’s journey with a depth that invites readers into the tender wreckage of becoming.