N S E W
A Novel

The Places
We Found Ourselves

Lindsey Reynolds

She had her mother's journal, a one-way ticket to London,
and no idea who she'd find on the other side.

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"What if the map back to yourself was written by the person you lost?"

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N S E W
The Places We Found Ourselves
Lindsey Reynolds
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About the Book

A journey she didn't plan.
The grief she couldn't escape.
The love she never saw coming.

Skye has been surviving on glass days and bruise days — the grief of losing her mother pressing in from every direction. She's been keeping busy enough to feel nothing.

Then she finds it: a worn blue leather journal with a compass on the cover. Her mother's secret travel journal — a solo trip across Europe taken in 1999, a trip she never once mentioned.

Fifteen hours later, Skye has a one-way ticket to London, her mother's necklace around her neck, and absolutely no plan. What follows is an impulsive, tender, emotionally raw journey across the continent — the Seven Sisters, Paris, the lavender fields of Provence, Barcelona, and the sun-bleached cliffs of Santorini — reading her mother's words at every stop her mother stood.

Glass days were sharp, splintered, painful — the hurt all-consuming with no room for anything else. Bruise days were better. She could function on bruise days. But they still had a dull, lingering pain — the kind she couldn't stop poking at.

And somewhere between the cobblestones and the chaos, she meets Wes — steady, warm, and wholly unexpected. A man who somehow knows when to stay close and when to walk ahead and let her read in peace.

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From the Pages

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Grief wasn't just about missing her. It was like losing my bearings. It was its own kind of homesickness. Everything felt slippery — who I was, who I'd been, who I wanted to be. Nothing made sense. And still, underneath all that weird, blurry chaos, was love.

Big, messy, unbearable love. The kind that didn't care how disoriented I felt — just sat there in my chest, loud and stubborn, refusing to go away, no matter how many walls I built.

— Skye

The Journey

Following the map she left behind

From the chalk cliffs of England to the blue domes of Santorini, Skye traces the route her mother walked a lifetime ago — reading her words at every stop, discovering the woman before the mother she knew.

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London &
Seven Sisters
England
"These cliffs feel like a clean slate — white, sheer, honest."
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Paris &
Provence
France
"The color nearly knocked me breathless. The land itself is alive and whispering."
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Barcelona
Spain
Where something between them sparks into something undeniable.
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Matera &
Italia
Italy
Ancient stone and harder truths — where she finally stops running.
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Santorini
& Oia
Greece
The golden light of the castle ruins. The place where everything ends — and begins.
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Isle of Skye
Scotland
A path she wasn't following anyone else to reach — the first page of her own story.

What This Book Is About

For anyone who has ever been lost
and found themselves anyway

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Grief & Healing

A raw, unfiltered look at what it means to lose someone who shaped every part of who you are — and the long, winding road back to yourself.

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Wanderlust & Discovery

A love letter to solo travel — to the freedom of getting on a plane with no plan, and finding out what the world looks like when you stop hiding from it.

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Unexpected Love

Not the loud, lightning-strike kind — but the quiet, steady kind that sneaks up on you at a train station and refuses to leave.

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Mothers & Daughters

What do we really know about the people we love most? A story about discovering your mother's hidden self — and in doing so, finding your own.

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Art & Identity

A photographer who stopped seeing the world clearly. A trip that slowly, gently teaches her to look again — at the sacred, ordinary moments worth saving.

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Sisterhood & Repair

Two sisters who grieve differently, love differently, and have everything to say to each other. A relationship that just might be worth saving — if they're brave enough to try.

From the Journal

"I hadn't realized how tightly I've been holding everything together. How much of myself I've packed away in the name of being useful, reliable, needed. I thought I was fine. Maybe I still am. But somewhere in all the 'I'm fine's, I forgot to be me."

— Elena's Travel Journal, 1999  ·  Seven Sisters, England

Skye's mother wrote those words at the edge of the cliffs, twenty-five years before Skye would stand in the same wind, reading them aloud. This is a story about the things mothers never say out loud — and the daughters who find them anyway.

Lindsey Reynolds

About the Author

Lindsey Reynolds

Lindsey Reynolds is a writer, mother, and storyteller with a deep love for the kind of fiction that makes you feel less alone. The Places We Found Ourselves is her debut novel — a story that explores grief, love, and the unexpected places that bring us back to ourselves.

Lindsey lives in Arizona with her husband and their three kids. When she's not writing, she can usually be found outdoors, at the lake, or making memories with the people who matter most.

She believes stories have the power to hold what words alone cannot — and that the most ordinary moments are often the ones most worth preserving.

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"I still want to share every sunset with her."