The Story the Village Wanted to Tell, Urmond, 1890​
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Sarah travels with her husband Bobby to Urmond, the village where she was born, to attend her sister’s wedding. What should be a family celebration soon becomes a return to a past she has spent years trying to forget. As memories surface, Sarah is forced to confront the silence, fear, and trauma about sexual and ritual abuse that shaped her childhood and still lives inside her.
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While the village continues its rituals of normalcy and celebration, Sarah struggles to maintain her mask. Between love, loyalty, and buried pain, she begins to question everything she has been taught about family, truth, and silence. In the safety of distance and memory, she slowly moves toward the possibility of speaking the unspeakable.
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A historical healing novel about memory, trauma, and the hidden lives behind respectable façades in a small village in 1890.
 
I’m Kelly,

This story is a historical healing novel, written in another timeline.
It is a story of sexual and ritual abuse. I hope you feel seen, heard and held while reading this story, and that it supports you in embracing your own story.

A remembering for you and your body that you are safe now, and that your story matters.

While reading, allow the energy of this book to touch the parts of you that need to be touched, and meet them with love. Whatever comes up, you are safe now. 

With lots of love,
Kelly
 
Please note: This e-book is the first part (approx. 5,700 words) of a historical healing novel in parts, written to be read and felt in one sitting.
 
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Specifications
 
Author: Kelly van Deelen
Publication Date: 12-06-2026
Language: English
Length: 51 pages (on mobile devices)
Genre: Historical Healing Novel / Spirituality & Transformation
Themes: Healing from abuse, breaking family taboos, shadow work, trauma & growth, and relational safety.
Format: E-book (digital download)
 
With love,
Kelly