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  • Genre:fiction
  • Sub-genre:Psychological
  • Language:English
  • Pages:43
  • eBook ISBN:9781667843704

Crossroads of Midnight

By Susan Hillstrand

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Overview


In her dreams, she hunts something wild and nameless. In real life, she fights to protect her children while living with bipolar I disorder in a world that feels just as unforgiving. As the hunted creature runs from filth into sunlight, her waking life begins to change too. Crossroads of Midnight is a lyrical, emotionally raw story about survival, motherhood, and the long road from chaos to light.
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Every night she chases something she cannot name.

At midnight, she runs. In her dreams, she is always chasing something—something furry, fast, and just out of reach. It darts through foul, suffocating city streets where the air reeks of decay and confusion. She doesn't know its name. She doesn't know her own. She only knows the chase. But with each passing night, the landscape begins to change. Beyond the dreams lies her waking life: raising children in the shadow of abusive parents, enduring hostile workplaces, and navigating the relentless highs and devastating lows of bipolar I disorder. Every dream foreshadows the chapter that follows. Every pursuit mirrors a battle she must fight in daylight. As the prey moves from darkness into open fields bathed in sun and clean air, her real world begins to shift too. Chaos slowly gives way to clarity. Fear to strength. Survival to hope. Crossroads of Midnight is a haunting and intimate literary novel about motherhood, mental illness, endurance, and the quiet, stubborn pursuit of something better—even when you don't yet know what you're chasing. Some hunts are not about capture. Some are about becoming free.

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About The Author


Susan Hillstrand is a Wyoming author whose work explores resilience, mental illness, motherhood, and the complicated path from survival to healing.


Drawing from lived experience, she writes stories that blend emotional honesty with powerful symbolism, creating characters who face darkness without losing sight of hope.


Her debut novel, Crossroads of Midnight, follows a woman navigating bipolar disorder, family trauma, and personal transformation through a series of haunting dreams that mirror her waking life.


When she isn’t writing, Susan lives in Wyoming with her family, animals, and more creative projects than she can reasonably finish.

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