About
Ever Zabell
As a marriage and family therapist, I write books reflecting substantial challenges alongside love’s resilience.Romance literature is often focused on courtship stories. I want to tell relationship stories.I live on a Northwest homestead, in a hundred-plus-year-old farmhouse with a large garden for food, dried flowers, medical herbs, cows, bees, chickens, a sweet Newfoundland who wants to eat the chickens, my four children, and my beloved Library Director husband.To any clients who may have found this website:
No- You will never find your stories in one of these books. Your stories are held in our shared therapy space and in a special confidential part of my heart.
Yes- Your strength and resilience inspire me.
Yes- Being an LMFT and working with you continues to be the best job in the world.
Book Series
In The End Series
The In the End series is romantic contemporary commercial adult fiction with a science fiction element. It includes page-turning plots while attempting to honor and provide twists on romance tropes. Each can be read as a standalone, yet they are interconnected, with each book building towards a larger story arch.Status: Querying
Book 1
Love In the End
A modern feminist romance: The Sound of Music (minus the singing) with a character like Sarah Connor from The Terminator as the nanny (minus the robots), plus more sexiness and…chickens.Love In the End, provides a twist on the nanny, rich widower trope. On the second anniversary of his wife's death, Henry is drugged and mugged at a bar. A stranger beats the assailants with her bare callused fists, bringing Henry back to his
large mansion. In the morning, in desperate need of daycare, he asks the mysterious Hazel to nanny his four children.As the kids fall in love with Hazel, she upturns their status quo manicured lawns to a lifestyle with a garden and chickens. As Henry falls in love with Hazel, he realizes her profound level of skill and trauma. Hazel comes to their house with rifles hidden in her truck bed, fresh bruises, a forged driver's license, weaponry expertise and unanswered questions. Can Henry love and trust someone with so many secrets? When he hears the time-bending truth, can love overcome the unbelievable? Sometimes, the stakes can feel like happily ever after or succumbing to an end of the world event. Sometimes, feelings are accurate.Status: Querying
BOOK 2
Home In the End
Home In the End is a modern forbidden romance that asks, can love grow when hate surrounds?After her girlfriend breaks up with her, Lydia drives to her first job as a midwife in a rural Washington clinic. Hope freezes as she learns the town is unofficially run by the Blood Wills, a dangerous hate cult. Lydia knows she should leave, but without family or money, she gives into the pull to help the disempowered women of the town. Her mission along with her dark hair and eyes makes her a target. Banquo, a handsome
homesteader, acts as a guardian to the clinic along with the women and children who seek its care. Banquo offers Lydia a safe haven on his farm with his family.While assisting births and rediscovering the love of laboring in the land, Lydia's attraction to Banquo builds. On the homestead, this huge muscular man listens, sees and respects her like no other. She learns the towns ‘good guy’ is trying to redeem his soul from the hate that tattooed him.When his shocking dark truth is revealed, their secret love seems doomed. The flames of danger threaten to engulf them when the clinic is saved from a firebombing by a mysterious woman named Hazel, who has unexpected connections to their past and their future.Against the odds, can the couple find a home in each other as the town and possibly the world burns?Status: Querying
Book 3
Us In the End
A dual point-of-view love story about overcoming high-stakes odds to build love and family. After a failure, Nolan comes back to North Pass, a town in the grips of a cult. Within the cult, he is a prince, but Nolan is also a prisoner with his mother and brother while he tries to do good in an impossible situation.Meera, with her turned eye and predominant birthmark, has lived as the town freak all of her life. Nolan asking her out makes Meera’s dreams and her amateur witchcraft come true. When the best weeks of her life result in a pregnancy, Meera
hopes safety and acceptance will follow. However, the town offers the opposite.Together, they must overcome danger, postpartum depression, and time-bending truths to escape North Pass, even if it means leaving with a dead body in the car trunk on top of 1980’s prom dresses.Status: First Draft
Book 4
Fated In the End
Dual point-of-view, with two love stories. Fifteen years after the day the previous three novels end, the closed community on the hill has experienced sustainable success, but also its share of tragedy. The faded romance of two of the younger
generation means a long-held secret will come to pass. Hazel, who has held bitter truths finds them slipping free.Trusting and healing can sometimes hurt more than bruises.Sometimes happily ever after looks different.Status: Outline