Raining Heartbeats

by Esther Lac

Raina Lee, an academically inclined yet ironically apathetic high school student, was inching closer towards her graduation. Rather than entertaining grandiose thoughts about her future, she was always preoccupied with surviving the day. Each day weaved itself into an irregular rhythm in the context of her dysfunctional family and her introversion that evolved gradually into isolation. Each “today” was an unpredictable pulse from yesterday, and like an arrhythmic heart, she was unable to perfuse proper meaning into much of anything she did.

Before the end of her senior year, Raina will encounter and rediscover heartbeats—people—who will interrupt her familiar rhythm and in that chaos learn that the missing heartbeat needed to recalibrate her broken family was never really lost, only neglected.

208 pages, Paperback

Published September 24, 2018

About the author

Esther Lac is a self-published author who grew up in Calgary, Alberta. She has a Bachelor's degree of Science in Nutrition with a specialized focus in Clinical Dietetics. With a passion and ever-growing interest in mental health advocacy, she pursues continuing education in psychology for leisure.

Her favourite hobby while growing up was creative writing, and she began sharing her fiction stories online in 2010 under the pseudonym SkyeLin. Her most popular online titles include: Dare to Desire, Roses are Red, and Wanderlust.

In 2013 she published "The Stargazer's Scrapbook," a novelette that addresses the fluidity of memory and the role memory has in shaping identity. In 2017 she published "Raining Heartbeats," a psychological drama that explores the effects of childhood trauma and domestic abuse on resilience in adolescence.

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