Vienna Stein

Vienna Stein is the author of powerful adult novels that blend advocacy, awareness, and a twist of psychology. A former certified mediator and court-appointed child advocate for children in foster care, Vienna draws from real-life experience to write stories that challenge perceptions and ignite empathy. Her work is shaped by a lifelong passion for law and psychology, as well as her personal journey as a disabled single mother of two adult children. Through her writing, Vienna gives voice to those too often unheard, revealing the emotional complexities of justice, identity, and resilience. Whether shining a light on invisible struggles or exploring the hidden corners of the human mind, Vienna Stein crafts fiction that doesn't just entertain-it resonates.

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Shear Therapy: Unfiltered Salon Confessions From Behind the Chair

Shear Therapy: Unfiltered Salon Confessions From Behind the Chair is the laugh-out-loud love letter to hairdressers—and the clients who treat the chair like a barstool and a therapy couch all at once.

Behind the blow dryers and bobby pins, salons are basically daytime bars. The gossip is hot, the secrets are hotter, and your stylist somehow...

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The Dismissed Patient: A Novel of Panic, Survival, and Recovery

Shayna had learned the shape of panic by the dent her body left in the mattress.

At thirty, newly divorced and living with her mother, she is swallowed by anxiety, depression, dissociation, and the slow collapse of everyday care—eating, showering, leaving the house. In her small rural town, her ex–best friend Tiffany has already ruined her...

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Love the Broken: When the World Stops Seeing You

Jenny Callahan knows what it costs to be believed.

Living with POTS (Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome) means her body can change the rules without warning—dizziness, racing heartbeats, fatigue that turns “simple” tasks into strategy. Some days she uses a walker with a fold-down seat. Some days she’s in a wheelchair. Every day, she’s a...

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