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Just Before Daybreak (A Life Lived Between Yesterday and Tomorrow)

THESE MOMENTS ARE PURELY TRANSITIONS IN YOUR STORY...BUT THEY JUST MIGHT KILL YOU.

You’re learning to live between what was and what will be.

The pages you’re on the brink of consuming will help you continue forward. They will help you release the idea that you’re alone. But most importantly, it will grant you acceptance for where you are now. To live life in the in between is for the strong of heart, the curious, and the courageous.

You’re not weak for missing what was. You’re courageous for knowing there’s more while not seeing more. There are moments in life where you meet the end of a thing. There’s no warning. There are some lies you’ve believed that must die so you can live. There’s nothing you can do to prepare for this moment, yet your whole life has prepared you to make it through. Sometimes the end is news to you, but the earth sings anthems of your victory. And though the road ahead seems treacherous, you’ll pull through, but not without dying first.

Ready or not, here it comes.

by Deanna Lorea

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Meet The Author

Deanna Lorea

DEANNA LOREA is the author of Unraveled, Undignified, and her newest work, Just Before Daybreak. With a voice both tender and unflinching, Deanna writes for those standing in life’s most honest pause—the space between fear and freedom, where starting over feels both impossible and inevitable.


Her work gives language to the in-between—those messy, sacred thresholds where identity shifts, truth rises, and healing begins. Whether drawn from the depths of experience or the spark of divine insight, Deanna invites readers to see themselves in her pages. Her stories don’t offer easy answers—they offer permission. Permission to grieve, to release, to reclaim, and to begin again with boldness.


Now based in Los Angeles, Deanna has been deeply immersed in her writing practice, using this new chapter of life to explore what it means to move from fear into freedom, from silence into story. Her books have become trusted companions for those navigating major life transitions and seeking the courage to be fully seen.

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