When survival becomes a habit, can forgiveness become a choice?
After The Stars Burn Out
After years of addiction, exploitation, and nights she can’t remember, Latifa wakes up to find herself out of chances. Then a man named Anthony offers something no one else ever has—rules instead of rescue, patience instead of punishment. Through bruised mornings, church basements, and diner shifts that smell of coffee and bleach, Latifa learns what sobriety truly costs: not perfection but persistence.
Yet even as she rebuilds a life measured in chalk marks on a wall—sixty days, ninety, a full year—the ghosts of her past refuse to stay buried. When a familiar voice pulls her former friend back into danger, Latifa must decide whether saving someone else will destroy the fragile peace she’s fought to earn.
Raw, redemptive, and quietly defiant, When Stars Burn Out is the story of a woman clawing her way from shame toward self-respect—and the start of a legacy that will reach the next generation.
“This place wasn’t just trash. It was a graveyard of choices—wrong turns piled up and rusted. She felt like she belonged here.”
Latifa – After The Stars Burn Out
When the world calls you lost, finding where you belong becomes the bravest thing you’ll ever do
Where the Stars Can Find You
Fourteen-year-old Kiki Robinson has spent most of her life learning how to disappear—into quiet rooms, behind her mother’s boyfriends, beneath the weight of being unwanted.
When she’s sent to live with Aunt Latifa—a woman she’s never met and whose past is whispered about—Kiki tells herself it’s just another stop. But small-town Mountain sees everything, especially the new girl in second-hand clothes and too many secrets.
Between Eric, the sharp-tongued dreamer hiding his own pain, and Duke, the quiet boy burdened by a family scandal, Kiki discovers that kindness can burn bright—and rumours burn hotter.
When a cruel lie threatens to unravel everything, Kiki must decide: run again, or finally stand her ground and face the ghosts she’s been avoiding. In a town where reputation is everything and forgiveness is currency, one girl’s fight to belong could heal more than her own broken heart.