Jessica Gallant – författare

Elise has always known how to exist on the edge of things, but when an unexpected connection begins to shift that balance, the changes come not as disruptions, but as a series of small, almost invisible decisions. Each one feels harmless, each one makes sense. Subtle, introspective, and quietly unsettling, Kissing the Night explores how easily we can drift into lives we never meant to choose- and how difficult it is to trace the moment where everything changed. Originally published in 2020, this novella is completely rewritten. Book 1/4.

For thirty days, reports are filed from kitchens and corridors, chandeliers and candlelight, from places where decisions are made and from places no one thinks to look.Movements are tracked. Patterns are noted. Names begin to surface. The situation grows.Across four divisions, intelligence is gathered with absolute certainty and complete confidence.Everyone is watching something. No one is seeing the same thing.

To save her family, she must become a lie.In a land on the brink of war, one forbidden choice sends her into the heart of a conflict far greater than she imagined.

Aline never liked the phone. Tonight, it rings. A scream shatters her quiet Monday evening, and a voice she thought lost reaches across the impossible. On the other end, Mark walks a bridge of ash and shadow, pursued by forces that are neither living nor dead.In a world where salvation is just out of reach and darkness listens, every note sung could be a prayer—or a last warning.

Angelique is seventeen when she meets Eric. She finds nothing in their relationship worth questioning. Her parents would disagree, and by the time she begins to feel something might be off, she's in over her head. Sent off to a horse ranch, Angelique begins to see things more clearly in a space where no one is interested in her past. Choices are made in this love triangle, coming of age novella, the first in the Never Let Me Go trilogy.

Georgia Mathers came back to Canada with two bags, no plan, and a faith she'd nearly let die. Almost forty, three times divorced, cut off from her family, she has nothing left to lose and nowhere left to go. Then she finds a church. And a man who remembers her from before she got lost. And a grace bigger than all her mistakes put together.Some people find God in a cathedral.Georgia found Him on a church step in the dark, in November, with nowhere left to go.

In a small apartment in coastal Tunisia, a cat named Loki watches the world through iron bars while the city breathes around her — prayer calls at dusk, storms rolling in from the sea, stray cats moving across sun-warmed walls, and a human woman trying to hold together a life that keeps threatening to come apart.When Loki gives birth to four kittens, the room becomes a kingdom unto itself. Gentle Jasper. Fearless Carrot. Sleepy Jojo. And Winnie, the smallest of them all, who survives by a thread and grows into a strange, watchful creature with an uncanny sense for love, grief, and the invisible bonds between living things.As the seasons shift and the fragile routines of the household begin to change, the cats learn the shape of devotion: the rituals of survival, the ache of leaving, the comfort of returning, and the ways love continues even inside walls, oceans, and impossible choices.

She knew the difference between warmth that was even and constant and warmth that had a pulse.

A woman escapes a detention camp in Texas carrying two things: a shredded hand and information someone powerful is willing to kill to contain.Elise has spent years surviving quietly — first in Iran, then in transit, then inside the machinery of American detention — learning how to watch, wait, and endure. But when she overhears fragments of a hidden operation moving unseen beneath the surface of ordinary life, survival stops being enough. Somewhere beyond the fences, children are disappearing through systems designed to look harmless. With only scattered allies, a relentless intelligence operative tracking the seams around her, and grief she can barely allow herself to touch, Elise is pulled into a widening conspiracy that stretches across borders, institutions, and the invisible architecture of power itself.Part literary thriller, part human drama, Enduring the Night, the final installation in the series is a tense and haunting novel about what people become under pressure — and what remains of them afterward.

Lena is thirty-eight, freshly divorced, and standing in a house that used to hold a family. Her daughter just married and moved out. Her ex-husband traded her in for a younger version of herself. She has no car, no license, and no idea who she is without the roles she built her life around.So she downloads a dating app.What follows is not a love story. It is something better. It's the account of a woman who goes looking for someone to fill the silence and finds, one blocked number at a time, that the silence was never the problem. Sharp, funny, and quietly devastating, geared for those in life changes they find themselves in without warning.

Jen made a choice she thought she could survive. A year later, she's trapped in a life she doesn't recognize—isolated in a foreign country, bound to a man she barely knows, and cut off from everything that once defined her. But when her world begins to fracture in ways she can't explain, Jen is forced to face the truth behind the choice she made and the terrifying possibility that some decisions don't come with a way back.

Kaelyn arrives in the castle by accident, but she refuses to become part of its careful machinery. She asks questions no one else dares to ask—and expects answers.As Hye Mi begins to see his kingdom for the first time, long-buried truths surface, loyalties fracture, and the quiet balance holding the empire together begins to shift.

After fleeing North America for what she believed would be a safer life in Tehran, Elise thought love would carry her through anything. But as tensions rise inside her marriage and whispers of extremism begin closing in around her young son, the life she built starts to feel less like a home and more like a trap.Caught between faith, motherhood, and a world where loyalty can become deadly, Elise faces impossible choices with no clear escape. Every warning grows darker. Every silence hides something deeper. And as the people around her tighten their grip on her family, Elise realizes that losing herself may not be the worst thing waiting for her in the night.A tense and emotional story of survival, betrayal, faith, and a mother's fight to protect her child at any cost.

Seventeen-year-old Abigail Lee has spent her entire life learning at home, safe inside a small, predictable world. Starting high school for the first time should be terrifying. Instead, it is where she meets Carney Drew.Carney is everything Abigail  is not: confident, experienced, and already shaped by a life Abigail is only beginning to understand. As their bond deepens, Abigail finds herself pulled into emotions and choices she was never prepared for, forcing her to grow up faster than she ever imagined. Because sometimes coming of age does not happen slowly. Sometimes it arrives all at once, in the form of first love, first heartbreak, and a decision that changes everything.

Tony makes a living preserving voices.When a megachurch hires him to archive forty years of sermons from the legendary Pastor Garfield Cross, the work should be simple: catalog the recordings and build a system that allows the pastor's voice to keep reaching people long after he's gone.But the deeper Tony goes into the archive, the harder it becomes to treat the sermons like data.Some voices are not meant to be edited.

Some years don't seem important at the time.In 1997, Tiff enters school for the first time after being taught at home. The rules are different. The people are different. She watches more than she speaks and begins to notice things she doesn't fully understand yet.It is only later that the year begins to make sense. And only later that she realizes what stayed with her.

Maddie has built her life on faith, routine, and showing up no matter how tired she feels. Nothing seems to change. At home, her children are drifting further out of reach. At work, she spends her days caring for lives that are slowly fading. And in the quiet moments in between, a question she has spent years pushing down begins to surface. What if none of it is working?When something impossible interrupts the ordinary rhythm of her life, Maddie is forced to confront what she believes, what she's been holding onto, and what it really means to keep going when there are no clear answers.This is a story about faith that doesn't feel strong, hope that doesn't come easily, and the quiet, costly act of not giving up.