Searching For Emiliano

What happens when the love you thought would save you becomes the very thing you have to find your way out of?

Rachel Williams is a young and hopeful twenty-three-year-old searching for something she can’t quite name. Meaning. Connection. Belonging. Maybe even the kind of love that makes everything finally fall into place. 

Then she meets Emiliano Morales on a soccer field. First-generation Mexican American, deeply devoted to his family and culture, Emiliano is everything Rachel is drawn to—and everything she doesn’t yet understand. Their connection is immediate, intoxicating, and difficult to resist. 

What begins as a spark becomes a relationship that consumes Rachel’s attention, shaping the way she sees herself, the people around her, and the world she thought she understood. 

But while Rachel is searching for answers in love, she begins overlooking the questions that matter most: How much of yourself can you give to someone before you lose sight of who you are? When does devotion become self-abandonment? And what are we willing to excuse when we desperately want a relationship to work?

Set against the sun-soaked backdrop of Southern California—pickup soccer games, oldies music, suburban streets, city nights, and the complicated intersections of culture, identity, and belonging—Searching for Emiliano is a haunting story about love, longing, vulnerability, and the blind spots that can emerge when we become consumed by another person.

For women who have ever loved deeply, lost themselves in someone else, or questioned their own instincts, Rachel’s story will linger long after the final page.

Searching for Emiliano is a contemporary women’s fiction novel about a profound—yet impossible—love, cultural tension, emotional vulnerability, self-abandonment, and the devastating consequences of failing to see what is right in front of us.

Details: 

• 333 pages
• Black and white interior
• Contains Spanish dialogue
• Ebook available on Amazon

Content note: This novel contains themes of emotional manipulation, racism, and violence that may be distressing to some readers.