Books bySamantha Pepper

Books for breakup, divorce, perimenopause & dark romance.

Books by Samantha Pepper.

Companion Books

Small companion books for the days after a breakup or divorce

For the broken heart that needs company. Open to any page. Read one. Put it down. Pick it back up when you need it. No advice, no steps, no fixing.

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Divorce / Breakup · First nights

I'm Right Here

The relationship ended. The house is quiet. Your phone is still in your hand.

Maybe it happened tonight. Maybe you woke up this morning and, for one second, forgot. Then you remembered.

A small companion book for the first nights and days after a divorce or breakup, when everything is still raw and you don't want one more person telling you what to do next.

Open to any page. Read one. Read five. Put it down beside you and pick it back up when the room gets too quiet again.

No steps. No timeline. No fixing.

I'm Right Here

For the first nights and days after a divorce or breakup.

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Divorce / Breakup · The weeks after

Breathe, Love, I've Got You

For the day you catch yourself smiling.

The crying stops being constant. You wake up and he isn't your first thought. Something lighter turns up without asking, and you feel guilty the second you notice it.

You're allowed. Feeling okay isn't disloyal to what you lost, and it isn't the same as being over it.

Short pages to read when the guilt creeps in. A hundred and two of them. No order, nothing to finish.

Breathe, Love, I've Got You

For the weeks after, when feeling okay again makes you feel guilty.

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Companion Book · Divorce + Perimenopause

Divorce and perimenopause at the same time

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Divorce + Perimenopause

Sit With Me a Minute

Your marriage is ending. Your body is changing. And somehow both are happening at the same time.

Open it when the house gets too quiet. Open it when the hot flash hits in the middle of everything else. Open it when you miss him even though you do not want him back.

Some pages are for the heartbreak. Some are for the body changes. Many are for the strange days when both arrive together.

No timeline. No fixing. No lecture.

Sit With Me a Minute

For a marriage ending while your body is changing too.

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Perimenopause

Funny perimenopause novels and a 90-day symptom tracker

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Perimenopause · 90-day tracker

The Menopause Symptom Tracker

Perimenopause symptoms have a terrible habit of changing before you can remember exactly when they changed.

Use one place to track hot flashes, night sweats, sleep, mood, cycle changes, brain fog, and other symptoms across 90 days.

Bring dates and patterns to a doctor visit instead of trying to reconstruct three months from memory.

This one is practical: write it down, see the pattern.

The Menopause Symptom Tracker

90 days of symptom tracking and doctor-visit prep.

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Funny perimenopause fiction

It's Not the Thermostat

The thermostat says sixty-eight. The repair guy says sixty-eight. Deenie Boyle is standing in her sixty-eight-degree kitchen sweating through a T-shirt and wondering why nobody else understands that the house is obviously on fire.

She is forty-six, married, working, raising a family, and usually very good at handling everything.

Then come the night sweats, hot flashes, missing words, rage, crying in deeply inconvenient places, and the slow realization that this is perimenopause.

A funny novel about the woman who keeps saying she is fine while her body changes the rules.

It's Not the Thermostat

A funny novel about perimenopause.

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Funny perimenopause fiction

I Was Fine Until Tuesday

Claire Bennett is forty-six, married, working, raising a family, and doing just fine.

Then come the hot flashes, middle-of-the-night heart palpitations, brain fog, missing words, body changes, and rage over chewing, breathing, misplaced scissors, and other perfectly ordinary things.

Eventually she finds the word that explains far more than she expected: perimenopause.

A funny novel about marriage, midlife, hormones, and one otherwise reasonable woman wondering what happened to the version of herself she knew.

I Was Fine Until Tuesday

A funny novel about perimenopause.

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Dark Romance

Dark romance with danger, forbidden attraction, and very bad timing

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Dark romance

Cold Blood, Warm Heart

Elena is trapped in a marriage. Wyatt was hired to protect her.

Wanting her was never part of the job.

For the reader who wants to leave real life behind completely and disappear into something darker, dangerous, and romantic.

Cold Blood, Warm Heart

A woman trapped in a marriage and the man hired to protect her.

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Gifts for a friend going through a breakup, divorce, or perimenopause

A small book says "I'm thinking about you" when you don't know what to say.

I'm Right Here

For a friend whose relationship just ended

I'm Right Here
Breathe, Love, I've Got You

For a friend a few weeks after the breakup

Breathe, Love, I've Got You
Sit With Me a Minute

For a friend going through divorce and perimenopause

Sit With Me a Minute
It's Not the ThermostatI Was Fine Until Tuesday

For a friend in perimenopause who needs a laugh

It's Not the Thermostat or I Was Fine Until Tuesday

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After a breakup or divorce

The Night It Ended

Six pages for the first night after a breakup, when it is still too raw to say out loud to anyone.

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Perimenopause

The Perimenopause Symptom Checklist

Thirty-four symptoms doctors recognise, with a tick box and a severity rating for each, plus the page to take to your appointment so you walk in with evidence.

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Samantha Pepper

Hi, I'm Samantha.

I write companion books for divorce and breakup, books about perimenopause, and fiction that can be funny, dark, strange, romantic, or dangerous.