Rite of Letting Go
(2025)(The second book in the Rites of Passage Southern Gothic Trilogy series)
A novel by Lorna Tedder
(Previously published as Midlife Mirages.)
The spell to survive heartbreak starts with one truth: you can’t fight what you refuse to feel.
Lauren has always been strong. As a Southern High Priestess, she’s spent decades holding space for others, building power, and keeping her family safe. But now, in the midst of a mysterious health crisis and the grief of losing her closest companion, her magic has gone quiet—and something dark has crept in.
A supernatural force is stalking her. Her finances spiral, her relationships fray, and a web of magical deception tightens around her. A rival chaos witch, cloaked in glamour magic, is twisting the truth and turning Lauren’s loved ones against her. But the greater threat may be the one Lauren refuses to face: the silence she’s imposed on her own pain.
To reclaim her power, she must stop pretending she’s fine. The only way forward is through the grief she’s buried—and back to the sacred voice she once trusted.
Rite of Letting Go is a transformative midlife tale of ancestral magic, spiritual crisis, and the slow-burning strength of healing on your own terms. A story for every woman who’s kept going through heartbreak, long after the world stopped seeing her pain.
Rite of Letting Go is the second standalone-but-linked novel in the Rites of Passage Southern Gothic Trilogy, where midlife magic, trauma recovery, and ancestral truth collide in stories of spiritual power and second chances.
Genre: Mystery
The spell to survive heartbreak starts with one truth: you can’t fight what you refuse to feel.
Lauren has always been strong. As a Southern High Priestess, she’s spent decades holding space for others, building power, and keeping her family safe. But now, in the midst of a mysterious health crisis and the grief of losing her closest companion, her magic has gone quiet—and something dark has crept in.
A supernatural force is stalking her. Her finances spiral, her relationships fray, and a web of magical deception tightens around her. A rival chaos witch, cloaked in glamour magic, is twisting the truth and turning Lauren’s loved ones against her. But the greater threat may be the one Lauren refuses to face: the silence she’s imposed on her own pain.
To reclaim her power, she must stop pretending she’s fine. The only way forward is through the grief she’s buried—and back to the sacred voice she once trusted.
Rite of Letting Go is a transformative midlife tale of ancestral magic, spiritual crisis, and the slow-burning strength of healing on your own terms. A story for every woman who’s kept going through heartbreak, long after the world stopped seeing her pain.
Rite of Letting Go is the second standalone-but-linked novel in the Rites of Passage Southern Gothic Trilogy, where midlife magic, trauma recovery, and ancestral truth collide in stories of spiritual power and second chances.
Genre: Mystery
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