Yarla WR / WRITER
An author in the making · A debut novel

Some stories
are meant to be told.

I'm writing my first novel — a story about family, appearances, the choices that change everything, and what remains when life falls apart.

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Behind the pages
“Some endings are only the beginning of who we become.”

A novel about the stories we tell others — and the truths we discover about ourselves.

THE DEBUT NOVEL BY YARLA WR

The Prison That Set Them Free

A Prisão que os Libertou

A picture-perfect family, bending themselves to fit an ideal — until a prison sentence sets them free.

For the Cohens, everything seemed to be in place. A marriage, two children, a home, a family built on the appearance of stability. Yet beneath it all were cracks no one seemed willing to face.

Until the day Jason makes the worst mistake of his life.

One night. Too many drinks. One choice. One sentence.

For Lya, still a teenager, her father’s imprisonment shatters everything she has ever known. Their home changes. Her parents’ marriage falls apart. Relationships shift. And so does she.

But some events only reveal their true meaning years later.

What once seemed to be the Cohens’ downfall forces each of them to confront truths that might otherwise have remained hidden forever. And slowly, the very prison that took away one person’s freedom begins to set the others free.

How can the very thing that nearly destroyed us become, one day, the reason we’re grateful for who we’ve become?

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