A Life After: What happens after she survives?

By Ms Freya I. M. Deacon

Hazel never expected her life to split into a before and an after.

One moment, she's a normal girl trying to survive the weight of everyday life while quietly carrying a hidden disability no one truly understands. The next, a devastating car crash leaves her fighting for her life-her body broken, her future uncertain, and the world she once knew suddenly out of reach.

When Hazel wakes, nothing feels the same.

The people around her treat her like she's fragile. Her independence is stripped away in small, humiliating ways. Her body no longer listens the way it used to. And worst of all, she's forced to face the terrifying question no one prepares you for:

Who are you when the life you planned is gone?

As Hazel struggles through pain, trauma, and the long road of recovery, she must navigate hospital walls, broken friendships, family fear, and the silent grief of becoming someone new. But buried beneath the loss is something fierce-something stubborn-something that refuses to disappear.

Because Hazel doesn't just want to survive.

She wants her life back.

And if she can't have the old one... she'll have to build a new one.

A Life After is a raw, emotional disability fiction novel about survival, identity, love, and the brutal truth of healing-where the hardest part isn't waking up... it's learning how to live again.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GJNJSVKV
• ISBN13: 9798245220765
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.03 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"