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Daniel and Petal
Inside Anna
You know her as Petal.
Now hear the story of Anna.
When her mother dies leaving almost nothing, thirty-year-old Anna makes herself a promise: she will never depend upon a man for the right to leave.
Marriage to James brings security, children and the settled life she believed she wanted. Yet money becomes protection. Attention becomes reassurance. And behind the closed doors of an apparently ordinary marriage, Anna begins making choices she will spend a lifetime trying to understand.
Then Daniel looks at her—and, for the first time, Anna is not merely wanted.
She is seen.
From her cottage childhood to marriage, motherhood, forbidden love and old age, Inside Anna reveals the woman behind Petal: daughter, wife, mother, lover—and unreliable witness to her own choices.
Intimate, sensual and psychologically complex, this is a story about love and betrayal, control and freedom, and the private truths we reshape in order to live with ourselves.
This is not Daniel’s story corrected.
It is Anna’s story remembered.
Inside Anna is a standalone companion novel to The Daniel & Petal Trilogy. It can be read independently but is best experienced after Loving Petal, Losing Daniel and Losing Petal.
Now hear the story of Anna.
When her mother dies leaving almost nothing, thirty-year-old Anna makes herself a promise: she will never depend upon a man for the right to leave.
Marriage to James brings security, children and the settled life she believed she wanted. Yet money becomes protection. Attention becomes reassurance. And behind the closed doors of an apparently ordinary marriage, Anna begins making choices she will spend a lifetime trying to understand.
Then Daniel looks at her—and, for the first time, Anna is not merely wanted.
She is seen.
From her cottage childhood to marriage, motherhood, forbidden love and old age, Inside Anna reveals the woman behind Petal: daughter, wife, mother, lover—and unreliable witness to her own choices.
Intimate, sensual and psychologically complex, this is a story about love and betrayal, control and freedom, and the private truths we reshape in order to live with ourselves.
This is not Daniel’s story corrected.
It is Anna’s story remembered.
Inside Anna is a standalone companion novel to The Daniel & Petal Trilogy. It can be read independently but is best experienced after Loving Petal, Losing Daniel and Losing Petal.
188 pages, Paperback
First published September 2, 2026
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