Janay Harden is a best-selling, contemporary author of young adult fiction.
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Welcome
Author. Seeker. Faith Dealer.
Janay Harden, LCSW is a millennial mental health therapist.
She is the CEO of Restoring Your Destiny Counseling and Consulting LLC. Janay comes with over ten years experience working in the mental health field with children, families, and schools.
Janay's love for words began when she spent hours reading books from the library. Her love for words was homegrown; and for years she tended to her craft until they ready for each other.
In addition to therapy, Janay is a full-time author and she uses storytelling as a therapeutic tool to promote healing and conversation. Her main focus is on creating stories that empower and uplift women, and provide a safe space for readers to explore and process their own experiences and emotions.
If you enjoy stories about melanated characters navigating love, friendships, and family, please consider sticking around while Janay makes sense of the world through her collection of words.
The Indigo Lewis Series
Forty-two Minutes: Book 1 of the Indigo Lewis Series
Forty-two Minutes is Book 1 in the Indigo Lewis Series and it’s a suspenseful and intriguing young-adult psychological thriller novel that delves into the complex issues of mental health, power dynamics, and family secrets. Indigo is the main character, and she is trying to escape her troubled family life while struggling to maintain her grip with reality. In walks her class-mate, Jaxon, and he manipulates Indigo using his power and privilege. As Indigo’s mental health deteriorates, a tangled tale of mayhem and murder unfolds—and someone loses their life. Forty-two Minutes is a perfect page-turner for fans of crime fiction.
Someone More Like Myself: Book 2 of the Indigo Lewis Series
Someone More like Myself is Book 2 in the Indigo Lewis Series and combines elements of Dexter and Ace of Spades. Indigo is in college and struggles to balance her social life, two men vying for her heart, the rigors of academia, while also dealing with a dangerous predator and her further descent into mental instability. This book is a thrilling and intense follow up to Forty-two Minutes that will leave you wanting more.
Locked In: Book 3 of the Indigo Lewis Series
Locked In is Book 3 in the Indigo Lewis Series. Indigo is grieving the loss of someone close to her when she is challenged by a callous co-worker who threatens her family and livelihood. Indigo struggles to curb her own darkness and with her sanity slipping, more family secrets are spilled. Locked In offers a glimpse into the mind of a morally gray character, on the road to redemption— eventually.
Hey, Brown Girl- a coming of age novel
"Hey, Brown Girl is a compelling and thought-provoking young adult novel that follows Raven and her three best friends, who make up The Brown Girls Club. The story takes a dramatic turn when child protective services drop off Raven's younger cousin, Carter at her doorstep. With Carter’s arrival, the family unfolds a complicated web of secrets, and forgiveness, in hopes of better understanding their shared generational trauma.
Book Cover of the Year: Hey, Brown Girl
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