Welcome to the Wonderful World of Mal Stevens…

Writer. Author. Thinker. Storyteller.

A Star To Remember

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When city life stops feeling like living, Indianna Waters points her compass north. A country girl at heart – and a nurse with something to prove – Indi takes a short-term post in outback Western Australia: a remote community hours from the nearest hospital, where the food truck comes fortnightly and the visiting doctor monthly. The red dirt is vast, the silence is honest, and the work is anything but simple.

Indi is tough on the outside; inside, old regrets still bite. The north offers purpose and a chance to make things right-until she collides with Big Russ Newcombe, a tall, closed-off local whose loyalty runs deep and whose grief matches her own. Between midnight call-outs, clinic days, and starlit verandahs, Indi learns that healing rarely arrives in straight lines. It’s built in small moments: a steady gaze, a shared laugh, a road that keeps going when you think you can’t.

Set against the rugged beauty of WA’s Pilbara and near Karijini National Park, A Star to Remember is a heartfelt small-town/remote-area romance about second chances, found family, and the stubborn hope that survives loss. Fans of rural romance and women’s fiction with a medical thread will find a story that’s tender, grounded, and quietly life-saving.

Never Be Afraid To Walk The Path Alone

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This book is an invitation to move through life the way it actually unfolds — in seasons.

Structured around the six Noongar seasons of Western Australia — Birak, Bunuru, Djeran, Makuru, Djilba, and Kambarang — these inspirational short stories explore observation, adaptation, growth, resilience, connection, and renewal as lived human experiences.

Each week offers a quiet, reflective story drawn from ordinary lives — men and women of different ages, backgrounds, and seasons — followed by gentle insight that honours grief, courage, endurance, love, and beginning again. Nothing is rushed. Nothing is bypassed. There is no false positivity or spiritual avoidance here — only honest wisdom shaped by real life.

This is a book for readers who are tired of being told to “move on,” and instead want to move with life — one season, one week, one truth at a time.

Whether read daily, weekly, or returned to in moments of transition, this book offers steady companionship for anyone navigating change, loss, healing, or renewal.

Because life doesn’t unfold in straight lines —
it unfolds in seasons.

Light Codes: The Art Of Stillness

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Light Codes: The Art of Stillness is a gentle yet powerful guide to meditation for those who feel called beyond the ordinary — for star beings, seekers, and sensitive souls ready to return to their inner truth.

Drawing on meditation practices, star being energy-inspired healing principles, and a deep understanding of consciousness, this book shows how just 15 minutes a day can calm the nervous system, quiet the mind, and awaken a profound sense of peace and remembrance. Through accessible guidance, reflective insights, and soul-centred practices, readers are supported to reconnect with their inner light and the stillness that exists beneath all thought.

This is not a religious text, nor a rigid meditation manual. Instead, it offers a warm, inclusive pathway into meditation that honours individual learning styles and lived experience — whether through stillness, movement, sound, breath, or reflection.

Light Codes: The Art of Stillness is a book that will awaken, soothe, and guide countless star beings back to their inner light. It is an invitation to slow down, listen inward, and remember what has always been known: the way home has never been lost.

The Dark Night Of The Soul

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A novel about loss, womanhood, and the quiet miracle of beginning again.

When everything you love is stripped away, what’s left is who you truly are.

After loss and betrayal shatter her world, Lena Newcombe is forced to walk through the wreckage of her own life. What begins as survival becomes a search for meaning — through grief, forgiveness, and the fragile beauty of ordinary days.

From the ashes of heartbreak to the quiet miracle of beginning again, The Dark Night of the Soul is a haunting, luminous story of one woman’s journey back to herself.

Because sometimes the light doesn’t return as a sunrise —

— sometimes it comes as a single, stubborn flame that refuses to die.

Project365: This is not an ending… This is a beginning…..

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