Mara grew up being the strong one. With a father she never knew and a mother lost to drugs, she learned to bury her emotions and hold her broken family together. Love, to her, was something you gave - never something you received.Until Ethan Cole 40-year-old renowned doctor who sees past her walls. For the first time, someone offers her the safety of a father and the tenderness of a man who truly loves her. But learning how to be loved when you've only ever known how to survive is the hardest thing of all.

Broken But Still BreathingI was broken. Not once, but over and over again.This is not a story about being unbreakable.This is a story about what happens after you break. About lying on the floor, gasping, and realizing that breath — shaky, small, imperfect — is still there.Shana Radhika Kumandan shares her raw and intimate memoir of survival, healing, and the quiet courage it takes to keep going when you are cracked in every place. It’s about a woman who was shattered but learned that broken pieces can still hold light.For anyone who has ever whispered to themselves, _“I can’t do this anymore,” and then did.You are not broken beyond repair. You are broken but still breathing. And that is enough to begin again.