About the Novel

Where Lightning Didn't Strike

A novel about weathering life’s emotional storms without an umbrella—or an apology.

Suzanne R. Turner has spent most of her life confusing intensity for intimacy, red flags for passion, and silence for safety.


After a breakup she didn’t see coming and an essay she never meant to go viral, she’s forced to confront the truth she’s edited around for decades.
What follows is a series of storms—some she walked into, some she created, and some she finally learned to walk out of.

With prosecco-fueled honesty, reluctant optimism, a best friend who refuses to let her backslide, and a cat who has no patience for metaphors, Suzanne begins to rewrite her emotional weather patterns one choice at a time.
This is women’s fiction for anyone who’s ever stayed too long, tried too hard, or mistaken being chosen for being valued.

Healing begins when we stop trying to hush the thunder.

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About Lightning Universe

Every storm begins with a whisper.
But not every whisper becomes a storm.

Not every day is a postcard-perfect fantasy.
And not every day is a Category 5 disaster.

Most days land somewhere in the unglamorous middle — that’s real life — and it’s perfectly okay to live there.
In a world addicted to drama and dopamine, being okay is borderline rebellious.

You don’t have to lower the bar.

You don’t have to chase it into the stratosphere, either.

Just choose the middle ground that doesn’t require heroics, and breathe.

Because being okay — being you on an ordinary Tuesday — actually counts.
Lightning Universe celebrates the quiet between storms, the days that don’t demand applause or survival skills.

Stillness isn’t stagnation.Solitude isn’t loneliness.
And the middle — that ordinary, nothing-special space where most real life happens — has far more meaning than people give it credit for.

Find it.Appreciate it.And just be.

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