She writes the truths women bury in silence — the ones they only whisper after midnight — their aches, their battles, their quiet wounds — the pieces they rarely let speak.
The story is always the beginning.
Meet the Author – Janie Steele
Forever Dreamer. Die Hard Realist. Hopeless Romantic. Critical Cynic.
Each piece collides, together they define.
Janie’s stories are born of fire — the kind we rise from.
“Fiction is the truth inside the lie.” — Stephen King
Featured Release: Closing Costs
Ana’s real estate career taught her that every home hides more than it shows — facades, flaws, and secrets tucked behind perfect doors. As her closest friends stumble through the upheavals of their own second chapters, Ana remains the soft place for them to fall. She planned peace for herself, but one client shatters that illusion — and Ana is forced to reckon with the pieces of herself she’s left behind — the pieces never ready to rest, and the parts that still burn to be claimed.
Tags/Genres:
Contemporary Romance • Elegant Erotica • Women’s Fiction
“Excerpt From: The Sad Cafe”
An unreleased Memoir of a childhood that carved a Dreamer, a Storyteller, and grew a Soul Unbroken.
Eventually, there was just an empty I felt when we finished speaking. A sadness for him, for his new children. But the empty was loud inside of me…
No. I wasn’t angry with him. I wasn’t embarrassed by him or where I came from, ever. There just wasn’t a place in each other's lives that made any sense to me.
Plus, I liked the soft place I held for him inside of me. I didn’t want that to change based on more memories created in the current here and now.
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From Janie’s Journal
- The First Words of a Storyteller
I’ve been writing since I was a kid, though I didn’t call it that then. At twelve, I wrote a song for a boy I met at Pismo Beach in California. Three days of sunshine, waves, and endless volleyball, and I was convinced I had…
