"My head sunk even deeper into my chest. A knot of realization tightened in my stomach. How right she was. I couldn't exist without people." In an effort to escape her mother, Delilah moves into a new city, hoping for a new start. There she meets Vincent Hayes, beautiful, smart, put together. Something she can't say about herself. As their lives get more intertwined, deception and betrayal find their way into her life. Will she be able to unravel the layers of horrors without corrupting herself?

A New York Times bestseller! A pioneering and timely study of how to navigate life's biggest transitions with meaning, purpose, and skill Bruce Feiler, author of the New York Times bestsellers The Secrets of Happy Families and Council of Dads, has long explored the stories that give our lives meaning. Galvanized by a personal crisis, he spent the last few years crisscrossing the country, collecting hundreds of life stories in all fifty states from Americans who’d been through major life changes—from losing jobs to losing loved ones; from changing careers to changing relationships; from getting sober to getting healthy to simply looking for a fresh start. He then spent a year coding these stories, identifying patterns and takeaways that can help all of us survive and thrive in times of change. What Feiler discovered was a world in which transitions are becoming more plentiful and mastering the skills to manage them is more urgent for all of us. The idea that we’ll have one job, one relationship, one source of happiness is hopelessly outdated. We all feel unnerved by this upheaval. We’re concerned that our lives are not what we expected, that we’ve veered off course, living life out of order. But we’re not alone. Life Is in the Transitions introduces the fresh, illuminating vision of the nonlinear life, in which each of us faces dozens of disruptors. One in ten of those becomes what Feiler calls a lifequake, a massive change that leads to a life transition. The average length of these transitions is five years. The upshot: We all spend half our lives in this unsettled state. You or someone you know is going through one now. The most exciting thing Feiler identified is a powerful new tool kit for navigating these pivotal times. Drawing on his extraordinary trove of insights, he lays out specific strategies each of us can use to reimagine and rebuild our lives, often stronger than before. From a master storyteller with an essential message, Life Is in the Transitions can move readers of any age to think deeply about times of change and how to transform them into periods of creativity and growth.

Lena is moving to Vienna to start her studies in History. Her expectations aren't high but the city gives her more than she could imagine. She meets Kevin and from that day nothing is the same. The boy is an addiction and soon they both obsess over one another. It's good to love isn't it? Even if the other side is a bit too possesive and can not take no for an answer. It will change, right? Everything will be good, right?

How could you make up a story about war. About brutality of the human kind. About experiences that are burned into my brain. How could you make up loss and losing of hope. I would love to make up stories about a happy world but for this there is no time. Reality is in the center of my writing and this journal will be about the ugly but in-between about moments that are beautiful. We try to see the beauty in every bad situation and may be even capable as human beings to write our story happily even in times of war.

If someone had told her at some point that a supermarket would change her life, she wouldn't have believed them. She hated going to supermarkets. And she hated "life-changing experiences". Still does, actually. Yet there had been this rainy, gloomy afternoon. And the child. She didnt like children very much, either. They were loud, sweaty, and they ate with their mouths open. And they were creepy. Not this child, though. No, something about that child was truly fascinating. In a positive way. She just didn't know what it was. And what she certainly didn't anticipate was that, very soon, she'd be meeting this child again...