Cambria

CAMBRIA is a literary coming-of-age novel about love, longing, friendship, betrayal, and the painful choices that shape who we become.

When twenty-two-year-old Cambria Nickson impulsively packs up her life and moves across the country to Pine Hills, she meets Jackson Harding, who can only be described as her long lost ‘other half’. What begins as an unexpected friendship slowly deepens into something more complicated, shaped by emotional intimacy, unspoken longing, and the sense that some connections are cosmic.

As lines blur and feelings convolute, Cambria decides she must fall in love with someone else in order to preserve their friendship. Her theory is: if she falls in love with somebody else and these feelings for Jackson dissipate, then she’ll know she was just confused.

However, she also knows that if she falls in love with someone else, and her feelings for Jackson don’t disappear… well, then she’ll be doomed.

Set against the ache of an all-encompassing love, self-discovery, and the weight of personal mistakes, CAMBRIA follows a young woman stumbling through the strange, unglamorous business of becoming herself. It’s a story about the people who shape us, the versions of ourselves we outgrow, and the difficult path toward knowing who we are.

For readers who love: literary fiction, coming-of-age stories, slow burn tension, friends-to-lovers romance, fated-mates, twin-flame energy, complex flawed characters, emotional realism, and stories that don’t promise a neat happily-ever-after.

Content warning: CAMBRIA contains mature themes including suicide, drug use, domestic violence, and infidelity. Intended for adult readers comfortable with morally complex characters and emotionally realistic struggles.