HELD (coming soon)

All I ever wanted to be was held. Carole spent a lifetime learning how to save herself. She fled when she needed to flee. She started over when starting over was the only choice. She survived fear, loss, betrayal, and the fires that threatened to consume her. Each time, she found the strength to keep moving forward. Then she met Larry. HELD is the story of what happened when a woman who had learned to survive discovered something she had never known: the safety of being truly seen, deeply loved, and held. Their life together was built not on grand gestures but on the ordinary moments that become extraordinary when shared with the person you love—morning coffee, laughter, friendship, tenderness, and the quiet certainty that someone is in your corner. Decades later, Carole returned to those memories and wrote them down for one simple reason: She wanted to feel the love again. HELD is a memoir of survival, love, memory, and the life that can wait on the other side of fear. It is not the story of a woman who was rescued. She had already saved herself. It is the story of what came after.