Claire's Choice is a quiet, unflinching novella about survival, conscience, and the long aftermath of a single decision.

Beginning in 1990, Claire lives with the physical and spiritual consequences of an abortion that was meant to erase a crisis but instead shaped the rest of her life. As she builds a career teaching business, volunteers with women carrying unspoken grief, and walks beside a younger woman facing her own reckoning, Claire learns that healing is rarely dramatic—and never quick.

Spanning decades, the story follows Claire through illness, friendship, spiritual formation, and a vocation revealed not through escape from the world, but deeper engagement with it. Along the way, the novel explores post-abortion grief, moral responsibility, friendship between women, and the cost of telling the truth in a culture eager for silence.

Set against the backdrop of changing social attitudes toward faith, women, and choice, without polemic or argument, Claire's Choice is a story about what it means to choose life again and again, long after the moment that first defined it.

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