Transformational Books
They carry truth, memory, and meaning from one generation to the next.
Our mission at Ember & Vine is to help authors publish stories their stories—both fictional and true. We believe in the transformative power of the written word and in creating space for voices that might otherwise go unheard.
In addition to our limited publishing model, we partner with Indie authors who value excellence, collaboration, and long-term impact. Together, we create books that are professionally produced, ethically published, and deeply human.
Indie Titles
Even in Exile
Rediscovering Hope and Joy When Your World Turns Upside Down
Rev. Susan Eaton
Have you ever looked at your life and wondered how you ended up here?
The diagnosis came. The relationship fractured. The dream died. The future you imagined disappeared. Suddenly, you’re living in unfamiliar territory—an exile of the soul.
Rev. Susan Eaton knows what it means to walk through seasons of uncertainty, grief, and shattered expectations. With the heart of a pastor and the compassion of someone who has traveled this road herself, she invites readers to discover a surprising truth: exile is not evidence of God’s absence. Often, it is where God does some of His deepest work.
Drawing on Scripture, personal story, and decades of active ministry, Even in Exile offers hope for anyone navigating disappointment, anxiety, relational brokenness, loss, or unanswered prayers. Through spiritual formation practices—including breath prayers, reflection exercises, and journaling prompts—Susan helps readers recognize God’s presence, cultivate resilience, and grow deeper roots of faith, even when facing their most difficult season.
You may not have chosen this wilderness. But you do not have to walk through it alone. God is here. Hope is possible. And even in exile, joy can be found.
Beyond Breaking Even
A Transformative Business Guide for Equestrian Professionals
Eliza Sydnor Romm and Jen Verharen
You love horses. But passion doesn’t pay the bills.
If you’re like most equestrian professionals, you probably spend long, grueling hours doing the work you love while struggling to make ends meet. These unsustainable business practices result from a culture that normalizes financial sacrifice as a price to pay for following your passion.
Beyond Breaking Even is for trainers, instructors, and barn owners who are tired of hoping their love for horses should sustain them while they’re chronically stressed, overworked, and drowning in debt.
Drawing on real data from more than 1,500 equestrian professionals, Romm and Verharen reveal a hard truth: most equestrian professionals have years of experience in the barn but have little education in business, management, or financial planning. As the industry faces a crisis of burnout and razor-thin margins, the authors argue that financial well-being is inseparable from the welfare of the horses themselves.
This book offers an alternative to the never-ending hustle. Written by two horse professionals who’ve faced these same challenges and found real solutions, this guide includes case studies, practical goals and action steps, and encouraging insights to help you build a sustainable business, continue the work you love, and support the life you really want to live.
Grace for Grief
A Mother’s Journey of Love and Loss
Pam Kirk McCarty
There is no right way to grieve the loss of a child. And no timetable for when the pain should ease. In the raw, disorienting days after loss, many parents are left asking the same question: How do I keep going when my heart is shattered?
Written by a mother who has walked this road, this memoir offers an honest, empathetic companion for the early years of grief. With candor and tenderness, Pam McCarty shares what it looks like to survive unimaginable loss—one breath, one memory, one fragile moment of hope at a time. Through personal stories, intimate mother-daughter moments, and poignant reflections shaped by lived experience, she reminds grieving parents that their pain is real, their grief matters, and healing is not a betrayal of love.
This book does not offer quick fixes or unrealistic solutions. Nor does it deliver academic opinions on how to grieve. Instead, it offers something far more sustaining: heartfelt understanding. It shows how love endures, how a child’s presence can continue to shape a family’s life, and how joy—unexpected and hard-won—can return without erasing loss.
Before We Were Women
A novel
Sunita Reddy
Three women. Three secrets. One summer that changes everything.
Anita Kumar was fifteen when shame stole her voice. Pregnant and afraid to disappoint her successful parents, she allowed others to decide her future—and her daughter’s. Years later, she buries her grief beneath competence, scanning every child’s face for the one she lost.
Born into wealth but raised in fear, Ashley Spady escapes a violent home only to find herself trapped in a cycle she doesn’t know how to break—until an unexpected diagnosis forces her to confront the truth about herself.
Adopted and blessed with an extraordinary memory, Robin Zymanski dreams of becoming a writer. But as questions about her origins deepen and her vision begins to fade, she must decide who she is when the future she imagined slips from view.
When their lives converge in the summer of 2009, the three women form an unlikely bond that reshapes their understanding of identity, forgiveness, and belonging. Before We Were Women is a moving novel of resilience and sisterhood—about confronting the past, reclaiming your voice, and discovering that family can be found in the most unexpected places.