Harder Than You Know

Janie Lee, a first-time independent author, writes with the clarity and depth of lived experience in her debut novel, Harder Than You Know. May has spent her career in the trenches of the mental health-field, fighting to keep others alive while her own home quietly fractures. Nothing in her training prepared her for the danger growing inside her own home. Coercive control tightens around her marriage. Her brother is slipping beneath the undertow of addiction and mental illness. And May is caught between the duty she feels to everyone else and the quiet voice urging her to finally save herself. May must confront the truth she's avoided: she can't rescue everyone. But she might still save herself - and the children who depend on her strength. Harder Than You Know is an intimate, emotionally charged novel about motherhood, survival, and the ache of letting go of what cannot be.