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Cyndie "CJ" Zahner is a digital-book hoarder, lover of can't-put-down books, wife, mother, grandmother, runner, and author of seven novels.

On April 1, 2025, her memoir, The House That Loved, was released. The story is about a drug prescribed to millions of pregnant women, including her mother. Uniquely, the novel's POV is a house, signifying the millions of homes, worldwide, that shelter DES children. Zahner is a DES daughter.

Her other books include four thrillers, The Suicide Gene, Dream Wide Awake, Project Dream, The Dream Diaries, and three chick lit novels in her Awkward Mothers You Hate Loving series, Friends Who Move Couches, Don't Mind Me, I Came with the House, and PLease Post Bail, Love Mom.

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	Don't Mind Me, I Came with the House 4.34 avg rating — 208 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Dream Wide Awake: Was she born with a gift or a curse? 4.50 avg rating — 150 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Please Post Bail, Love Mom: A laugh-out-loud Mom Com (Awkward Moms You Hate Loving Series) 4.49 avg rating — 39 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	Australia Burns - Volume 3 (Show Australia Some Love #3) by Tena Stetler (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), C.J. Zahner (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Rhonda Gilmour (Contributor) 4.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2020 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The House That Loved: Based on a true story about the side effects of a drug prescribed to pregnant women 4.88 avg rating — 8 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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C.J. Zahner said: " This is a stand-alone prequel to Dream Wide Awake. I wrote this in response to readers asking wat happened to the kids in the desert.

This is a coming-of-age story of teenagers set in the most unusual circumstances. "

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On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

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“precious moment of time. A mother’s job is to love her children. Yet first, you must learn to love yourself, Nikki. You don’t have to be perfect. You just have to be enough. And you will be. Trust me. The simplest of mothers, those who stand in the shadows of their children, are often the strongest souls, their love unbending.”
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