Finding a Best Friend - Introduction
Table of contents
Some friendships are forged in fire, others bloom in the quiet moments after the storm. Jake isn’t sure when life started slipping through his fingers—maybe when school nearly crushed him, or when his best friend Brooke began pulling away behind a mask of cheer. There was a loneliness she carried silently, and he couldn’t bring himself to ask about it. As the two of them stumble through grief, family chaos, and the wild mess of growing up, they find themselves leaning on each other in ways neither expected. Finding a Best Friend is a story about scars that don’t always show, friendships that run deeper than love, and the quiet courage it takes to let someone see you—really see you—for who you are.
Table of Contents
Prologue – Never Too Late
Part 1 – Out of the Shadows
Chapter 1 – Patterns of Grace
Chapter 2 – What Lies Beneath
Chapter 3 – Finding Infinity
Chapter 5 – Laying the Past to Rest
Chapter 6 – High Stakes Real Estate
Chapter 7 - Crashing the Party
Chapter 8 - Holding Out For a Hero
Chapter 9 - Roll On Down the Highway
Chapter 10 - The Wayward Child
Chapter 11 - The Mantle of Friendship
Chapter 12 - The Hero Revealed
Chapter 13 - The Rhythm of Waves
Chapter 14 - Sunrise on the Beach
Chapter 15 - Because She Wasn’t Hungry
Interlude 1 - A Fine Work of Art
Part 2 - An Education in Grief
Chapter 16 Roughest Tributary (coming soon …)
Author’s note:
Those who know me well might expect my first book to be a grand fantasy adventure across mystical lands. However, the setting for this book is planet Earth in modern times. No, this isn’t an urban fantasy.
The magic in this book stems from the power of friendship. The foes they fight aren’t the demons from some netherworld. They come from within. We label them as depression or mental illness. The protagonists must struggle against their inner demons and those who would exploit them.
The genre of this book is contemporary fiction with a coming-of-age theme.