Headlamp in the Dark

Some people don't just love you — they light the way. Tonya wore headlamps in the dark and camo in the summer. She baked cakes at midnight, fixed broken things with fishing line and sheer stubbornness, and showed up every single time her little sister called — no matter the hour, no matter the cost. She was fierce, funny, and more stubbornly alive than anyone Chasity Phillips had ever known. Headlamp in the Dark is the story of two sisters raised on an Alabama mountain, eleven years and a world apart — and the unbreakable bond that wove their lives together anyway. From riding shotgun in a Ford Ranger to factory floors, Florida sunburns, midnight emergencies, and eighteen terrifying days in a hospital room, Chasity traces a lifetime of being sheltered by the one person she never imagined losing. Then October 2025 arrived, and the mountain went quiet. Raw, funny, heartbreaking, and achingly honest, this memoir is for anyone who has ever been loved by someone who never asked twice — and for anyone who is still learning, one impossible day at a time, how to stand in the open without them. She was the safest place I ever knew. Approximately 95 pages