Lonely Veronica

Lonely Veronica A novel about loss, courage, and the quiet art of beginning again. After a devastating loss, Veronica escapes to a small coastal town at the edge of the world—a place where the sea speaks in whispers and every sunrise feels like a question. Renting a modest room above Mara's guesthouse, she spends her days painting, walking the weathered pier, and trying to remember how to breathe without breaking. Haunted by memories she cannot name and silence she cannot escape, Veronica finds herself drawn into the slow rhythm of the town: the patient kindness of Mara, the steady calm of Elias who tends the boats, and the restless curiosity of young Liam who sketches the sea as if he can capture its soul. Together, they become an unexpected mirror of healing and belonging. As storms pass and seasons change, Veronica learns that loneliness doesn't always fade—it transforms. It becomes space. It becomes possibility. It becomes courage. Written in intimate, poetic prose and steeped in the scent of salt and rain, Lonely Veronica is a story of grief and rebirth, of quiet transformation and the fragile beauty of hope. For anyone who has ever stood by the sea and wondered how to begin again.