Lena Zayne
Literary fiction about identity, relationships, trauma, and the complicated ways we understand ourselves through the lives of others.
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The Year My Soul Died
A taut, intimate story of love, fear, obsession, and the dangerous comfort of being needed.
What happens when being needed becomes a way of losing yourself?
At sixty-three, Diane leaves a long marriage and moves in with Katie, a younger woman she has fallen in love with, believing she is finally choosing a life of her own.
When Darren, a violent man from Katie's past, moves into the house and begins controlling her, Diane becomes determined to protect Katie at any cost. But as fear, old trauma, jealousy, and obsession begin to blur together, Diane can no longer tell where protection ends and possession begins.
The Year My Soul Died is a literary autofiction novella about love, domestic abuse, identity, and the dangerous comfort of being needed.
About Lena Zayne
Lena Zayne is drawn to intimate stories about flawed people, difficult choices, and relationships that resist easy answers.
Her writing explores identity, trauma, LGBTQ+ lives, and the complicated ways people understand themselves through the people they love. The Year My Soul Died is her first work of literary autofiction.
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