Home: A Novel

Home: A Novel (3rd Edition, 6/2025) is Johnston’s sequel to Mental (2023), and follows heroine Evelyn Marie Stuart Dufrense through a year marked by losing her teen daughter to madness, divorce and parental interference, as she tries to manage adversity and disappointments in order to find a way to understand herself, her marriage, the reappearance of her first fiance, and many other changes and transitions. Eve loses herself, and finds herself, too, as she works her way through a difficult year in a mental hospital, a battered women’s shelter, and other unlikely places, to emerge as the Badass Mama Author she has worked for years to become.

“A++!”--Publisher Kristen Marie (Tichenor) McCurry, Halcyon Days Press, Inc., Texas (2018-)