Searching For Emiliano

How much of yourself can you give to someone before you lose sight of who you are?

At twenty-three, Rachel Williams is searching for something she can’t quite name. Meaning. Connection. Belonging. Maybe even the kind of romance that makes everything finally fall into place.

Then she meets Emiliano Morales on a soccer field. A first-generation Mexican American deeply devoted to his family and culture, Emiliano is everything Rachel is drawn to—and everything she can’t understand.

Their connection is immediate, intoxicating, and difficult to resist—but love doesn’t always become the story we imagine. Rachel starts seeing the world through the lens of their relationship, overlooking the questions she should be asking and slowly losing sight of the person she was before Emiliano.

When she is forced to confront the heartbreak of a relationship that cannot become what she wants it to be, she searches for something—anything—to distract herself from what she’s lost. And that search takes her somewhere she never expected to go.

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 contemporary women’s fiction novel about love, longing, self-abandonment, and the consequences of failing to see what is right in front of us.

For readers who enjoy emotionally complicated relationships, multicultural love stories, psychological tension, and women’s fiction that asks difficult questions, Rachel’s story is a reminder that sometimes the person we’re searching for isn’t the only thing we need to find.

Searching for Emiliano explores what happens when the search for love becomes a search for yourself—and when the choices we make while trying to escape heartbreak can have consequences we never saw coming.

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

Details: 

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

If the paperback book is sold out here, you can get a copy on Amazon.