A Breath Too Late

By: Callen, Rocky

Seventeen-year-old Ellie had no hope left. Yet the day after she dies by suicide, she finds herself in the midst of an out-of-body experience. She is a spectator, swaying between past and present, retracing the events that unfolded before her death.

But there are gaps in her memory, fractured pieces Ellie is desperate to reassemble. There's her mother, a songbird who wanted to break free from her oppressive cage. The boy made of brushstrokes and goofy smiles who brought color into a gray world. Her brooding father, with his sad puppy eyes and clenched fists. And Ellie's determined to find out why a piece of her was left behind.

Told in epistolary-like style, Callen's deeply moving A Breath Too Late sensitively examines the beautiful and terrible moments that make up a life, and the possibilities that live in even the darkest of places.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GYTG5J1X
• ISBN13: 9798994951200
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Sunderhaus Press
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"
• Age Range: 13 to 18 years
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary