Echoes of Grace and Shadows

By: Windsor -. Brathwaite, Michelle

High School is Hell. Literally.

For sixteen-year-old Elara, everything is falling apart. Her brother, her only true confidant, is gone. Her parents are on edge. And the pressure to fit in at Northwood High is making her feel like a total fake. To survive, Elara must make a choice: cling to her "dusty sword" of neglected faith, or accept the glittering, fake invitation to popularity offered by the magnetic Sienna.

What Elara doesn't know is that her identity crisis has awakened an invisible war for her soul.

Above her, the celestial guide Raphael whispers courage. Below, the bitter tempter Malachi has deployed his ruthless agents, Murk (Doubt) and Vexia (Vanity), to crush her hope and isolate her. When Malachi strategically cuts Elara off from her last lifeline, she finds herself completely alone, facing the ultimate spiritual deadline.

Torn between the whispers of despair and the desperate chance for genuine friendship, Elara is forced to undergo a painful coming-of-age. She must learn that the greatest weapon in this unseen battle is not perfection, but the simple, desperate act of choosing love over loneliness and, above all, learning to trust the quiet, vital truth God has placed in her own heart.

Will Elara survive the war for her soul, or lose herself to the shadows of high school?

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G1R3Z7S9
• ISBN13: 9798273697287
• Release Date: November 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 44 Pages
• Weight: 0.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"