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Pauline J. Grabia
Stories of Consequence
Fiction that faces the dark, but ends in light.
My debut novel, What Remains After, is now entering distribution.
What Remains After
Now Entering Distribution
A literary psychological suspense novel set in 1980s Alberta, where buried truths refuse to stay hidden - and the past demands to be reckoned with.
Rolling out now. Available on Amazon now and at other major online retailers in the coming weeks.
Pauline J. Grabia writes redemptive literary fiction that faces the dark but ends in light.
From the Stories of Consequence Blog:
Reflections on writing, memory, trauma, and the stories we carry.
Explore My Earlier Work:
Before What Remains After, these stories helped shape the path.
War Within
After her mother’s death, Maeve Roberts uncovers a hidden ring—and a secret that reshapes her past. Her search leads her to a dying man who may be more than a stranger.
Haunted by childhood trauma and pulled between fear and compassion, Maeve faces an impossible choice: protect herself, or risk everything for a truth she’s only just begun to understand.
The Tree
When a man returns home to fell the old elm his father planted, he’s prepared to clear away the past. What he finds instead is a memory carved deep in the bark—one that teaches him forgiveness grows quietly, even in winter.
The Tree is a story about loss, reconciliation, and how redemption can take root in unexpected soil.
Trash
Set in a quiet Alberta town where one woman’s morning routine uncovers more than discarded bottles and broken memories, Trash explores redemption, dignity, and the hidden worth of what the world overlooks.
If you’ve ever wondered what beauty might still lie beneath the ruin, this story is for you.
Future Story Ideas I’m Working On
Broken Halo
A Bible arrives by mail. A note claims a lie. A truth long buried begins to rise.
When Wil Endicott, a recovering alcoholic and auto restorer, receives a worn Bible and a card suggesting his late fiancée Maggie Belanger was murdered, the life he’s fought to rebuild begins to splinter. The gift forces open wounds he’s never faced—and the family secrets he’s tried to forget.
Across Edmonton, Faith Eidler—Maggie’s sister and a private investigator—receives the same message. Skeptical but unsettled, she begins to trace her sister’s final days. The trail leads to Wil, the man she blames for Maggie’s death, and to a partnership neither wants but both need.
Their search exposes a web of corruption linking Maggie’s death to Wil’s father, Richard Endicott, a man whose wealth and reputation conceal decades of deceit. As danger closes in, Wil and Faith are forced to confront the ghosts of their past and the fragile possibility of grace.
From the rain-washed streets of Edmonton to the silence of a rural chapel, Broken Halo begins The Endicott Trilogy with a story of grief, moral reckoning, and quiet redemption—a reminder that even the most fractured light can still reflect hope.
The Fallen
In the aftermath of truth, even the faithful can fall.
Months after the events that exposed his father’s crimes, Wil Endicott is struggling to hold his life together. His business falters, his sobriety wavers, and his relationship with Faith Eidler—once built on shared purpose—hangs by a thread. When he witnesses the abduction of a homeless man, Wil is drawn back into a darkness he thought he’d escaped.
The missing man, Caleb Gilbert, links to a pattern of disappearances tied to the same network that destroyed Maggie Belanger. At the same time, Faith receives a chilling email—a photo of a murdered woman wearing a wedding dress and tagged with her name. Believing she’s being targeted, Faith turns again to her investigative instincts and to a truth she no longer trusts.
As Wil follows leads from Edmonton’s back alleys to an English boarding school where his father once studied, Faith begins her own descent—working with lawyer Alexis Fabray to uncover evidence that Quincie Thicke, the daughter of a serial killer, may have been another victim of manipulation. Each discovery tightens the web and tests their endurance.
Haunted by guilt and betrayal, Wil and Faith must decide whether faith can survive disillusionment and whether love can outlast the fall.
The Fallen continues The Endicott Trilogy with a story of endurance, moral cost, and the long shadow of inherited sin—proof that even when belief falters, grace waits in the ruins.
Saving Hope
When everything breaks, what remains?
After her daughter’s abduction and a failed attempt to end her life, Faith Eidler begins again—fragile, guarded, and unwilling to hope. Under her father’s steady guidance, she relearns the simple disciplines of living: therapy, journaling, prayer, the tending of a small garden. But while Faith fights to recover, Wil Endicott cannot rest.
A body found in Calgary—Caleb Gilbert, the man Wil once tried to save—leads investigators back to Richard Endicott’s network and a trail that reaches deep into Mexico’s Riviera Maya. When Vicar Ian Penny calls with word of missing children and a possible lead on Faith’s daughter Olivia, Wil agrees to join the mission that could destroy him.
As Faith nurtures new growth in the soil of her own backyard, Wil risks everything to rescue a child who embodies the hope they both lost. Their journeys—one inward, one outward—converge in the same truth: healing requires surrender, and grace often wears the face of love.
Saving Hope concludes The Endicott Trilogy with luminous honesty—a story of faith renewed through brokenness, and of hope that endures because it has learned how to bend.
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