When the Body Speaks of Love and Loss: And Everything In Between

By Mrs. Nyree Dawn McQueen-Edwards Ed.S.

Some women are born into love. Others have to learn it the hard way.

Twenty year old Rayna Middleton is a psychology student and dancer
trying to survive what words can't hold. When Mrs. Khan, the woman who
reared her dies, Rayna finds herself unmoored, caught between grief and
the desperate need to feel anything other than loss.

She marries Solomon, a man she barely knows, because he offers sanctuary
when everything else feels like drowning. She finds herself drawn to Jonas,
her advisor, whose attention makes her feel seen in ways that both terrify
and thrill her. She self-destructs with Ross because sometimes the only way
to feel something is to feel everything wrong.

But someone else has been watching. Someone who's been there since she
was eight years old, dancing in a church basement. Someone who
believes Rayna was always meant to be his.

When the Body Speaks of Love and Loss is a dark psychological exploration
of desire, trauma, identity, and what happens when the body remembers
what the mind has forgotten.

Book One of the series, Borrowed Brown Skin.

For readers who want fiction that doesn't look away.

Content warning: This novel contains depictions of sexual assault (including
assault while unconscious), stalking, infidelity, and psychological manipulation.
Reader discretion advised.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0FWBH4TG9
• ISBN13: 9798269185125
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 198 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"