P. A. Farrell – författare

Darren Alcott is thirty-seven years old, and his doctors have given up.The rare blood disorder destroying his body—attacking his nervous system, flooding his abdomen with fluid, eating at his kidneys and his heart—has left him with one choice: where to spend his final weeks. The specialists have stopped talking about cures. The nurses have stopped making small talk. The man Darren used to be, the one who wired houses and coached youth soccer and felt everything through his hands, is fading.But Darren's wife, Nora, isn't the kind of woman who sits still when something can still be done.At two in the morning, armed with a podcast, a two-month medical file, and a desperate email she wasn't sure anyone would read, Nora reaches out to Dr. Paul Wentz—a researcher in Philadelphia who has built an artificial intelligence model designed to do something medicine has never been able to do at scale: find treatments hiding in plain sight.Wentz's system, TRACE, scans thousands of existing, already-approved medications against tens of thousands of diseases, looking for connections no human researcher could hold in mind all at once. By morning, it has an answer. Not a proven therapy. Not a sure thing. A signal — strong, surprising, and unlike anything Darren's oncologist has ever tried.Now, someone has to decide whether to trust a machine with a man's life.What the Machine Knew is a story about the people who fall through medicine's cracks—and the stubborn, improbable forces that sometimes pull them back. It's about love that refuses to accept the word "e;terminal."e; About science that refuses to stop looking. About the courage it takes to be the first person to try something nobody has tried before.For fans of literary fiction grounded in real science and deeply human stakes.

The Bookkeeper's Curse is a paranormal romantic novella about what happens when an ordinary woman is forced to confront extraordinary magic—and her own capacity to choose the life she truly wants.Susan Mitchell has built a quiet existence in Millwood, Illinois. She runs the circulation desk at the public library, keeps her routines predictable, and rarely asks life for more than a peaceful day. But everything changes the morning she realizes she has lived the same Monday three times in a row. The same burned hand, the same late coffee, the same patrons returning the same books. Time isn't just repeating—it's trapping her.Then Derek Stone walks into the library. Brooding, disoriented, and carrying the weight of a family legacy he can't escape, Derek reveals that he's stuck in the looping day too. His late grandmother left behind a Victorian house full of journals, spellwork, and a warning about a "e;family hunger"e; that destroys the people they love. The looping Monday is no accident. It's a generational curse—and Susan has been pulled into it because she may be the key to breaking it.As the two work through stacks of journals, broken family histories, and fragile emotional truths, something deeper begins to grow between them. Each repeated Monday intensifies their connection, forcing both to confront the fears that keep them small: Derek's belief that loving someone means risking their ruin, and Susan's lifelong habit of choosing safety over possibility.But the curse demands a "e;choice made from pure love,"e; and neither knows what that means—until they realize the spell has never been about punishment. It's about learning to love without possession, fear, or sacrifice of the self. The freedom they seek will require vulnerability, honesty, and the courage to choose each other without clinging.Warm, emotionally grounded, and steeped in gentle paranormal mystery, The Bookkeeper's Curse is written for women who enjoy a blend of romance, small-town atmosphere, magical realism, and stories about breaking old patterns to build healthier futures. It's about love that liberates rather than confines, and the kind of transformation that can only happen when two people finally stop living the same day—and take a risk on tomorrow.