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About Jeanne Selander Miller

Internationally acclaimed author Jeanne Selander Miller has written a trilogy of memoirs which have been awarded the Best Spiritual Book at the London Book Festival and Honorable Mentions at the Paris International Book Festival and the New York Book Festival. Her most recent work is a novel, revealing truths about life in a college prep school and the grim underbelly of accompanying privilege. Jeanne's style is open and personal, drawing on the rich experiences of her life. She's been married, single, widowed and divorced. She's the mother of two bright and fiercely independent children, and has strong multi-generational ties to her … Read more about About

The Seer

The Seer

I was once certain there must come a time in everyone’s life when they become suspicious of all the stories they’ve been told, the ones passed on as truth from one generation to the next. Perhaps it is time to ponder the difficult questions buried deep within the forgotten wells of our souls, the questions that wake us in the dark of night, beg to be looked at, and demand to be answered.

Stockholm 2034

Saga, a skeptical 35-year-old woman, consults a past-life regression therapist to confront the nebulous fear she carries. Why is she so intent on sabotaging her own life?

Elise begins to understand the dynamics at work when she tries to help a student suffering with schizophrenia. There is no problem so compelling that it cannot be ignored, if the wealthy parents demand it. If a substantial donation is on the table, the Academy is willing to turn a blind eye, but there is a price.

During the initial session, Saga travels back to 1975 to rural Iowa where she embodies 18-year-old Fiona Dolan, a farm girl who has always felt like an outsider, even in her large, Irish Catholic family. Fiona has been labeled as a storyteller, but this is just another way to say they think she is a liar. Even her own mother thinks she’s too smart for her own good. Only her grandmother recognizes that she has the gift. Fiona, like her grandmother, is an old soul carrying knowledge from other lifetimes.

A traumatic event catapults her further back in time, where she once lived as a different person. Remembering her past, she struggles with her own capacity for violence as she confronts the realization that members of her family and community betrayed her not only in other lifetimes, but they have followed her into her current life and are seeking vengeance. 

Fiona’s story becomes intricately intertwined with Saga’s as she time travels between both realities. Can she find a way to break the karmic cycle of revenge and retribution?           

THE SEER is the first book of the Full Circle trilogy.

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The Seeker

Fiona’s Story

The Seeker

Unless you are willing to question your own beliefs, you have no place questioning the beliefs of others.                                                                 

— Anonymous

Fiona Dolan has felt misunderstood her entire life. It’s not easy for a gifted student with a curious mind to endure life in rural America. When the stars align, she is awarded a scholarship to a prestigious college in Chicago and the means to escape the small-minded judgments of her parochial community. If this move is going to be her entrée into a new life, then Fiona has a secret she must protect— for she is a Seer and a Seeker.

Triggered by recurring recollections of past traumas, Fiona now slips effortlessly between her past lives and her current life with greater regularity. The visions and memories leave her untethered as she questions what is real and what might be created by pure imagination. 

How will she adjust to life in a big city, the diversity of the people who live there, and ideas that challenge what she has been taught to believe? Trying to balance thejoie de vivreof her new-found freedom with the rigor of academia Fiona gets caught in an ethical dilemma. 

When she falls in love with a man, who is deemed unacceptable by the standards of her provincial upbringing, Fiona must decide if she will let her traditional family dictate her choices and control her path or if she will follow her heart and pursue a life of her own choosing.

Each visit to her past clarifies her vision and provides insight into the nature and character of the people in her life, including an evil nemesis who has stalked her from lifetime to lifetime and is hell-bent on teaching her a lesson.

Just as life seems to be working out, all of Fiona’s carefully laid plans are upended when chaos and drama erupt back home, leaving Fiona to seek answers to those questions that wake her in the night and demand explanations.

Will Fiona allow her past to dictate her future?

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The Knowing

Saga’s Story

The Knowing

“I used to think the top environmental problems werebiodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse, and climate change. I thought that with thirty years of good science we could address those problems.

But I was wrong. The top environmental problems are selfishness, greed, and apathy and to deal with those we need a spiritual and cultural transformation. And scientists don’t know how to do that.”

— Gus Speth

Sweden 2035

Nationalism is on the rise as long-held foundational beliefs and values erode. 

What was once held dear is at risk of being lost.

Saga’s beloved mother begins to suffer the irreversible effects of dementia and Saga must step up and assume the leadership of her family’s timber and mining business which has been in her family for hundreds of years. Has Saga’s appointment been approved because the members of the board believe she is capable or only capable of being manipulated?

Saga moves between her past lives and her current life as she struggles with all of the shifting alliances and competing agendas while urgently attempting to put together the disparate pieces of this puzzle. The names and faces of people from her past also inhabit the present, each playing a part as the conflict widens and the stakes become higher.

Saga finds herself in the center of a dangerous international conspiracy that threatens the family business, the indigenous Sámi people, the ancient migratory path of the reindeer, as well as the safety and security of her country, and the survival of Mother Earth.

Who will come to her aid when all avenues to a successful resolution are blocked by her evil adversary who has stalked her from lifetime to lifetime? Saga must distinguish who she can trust from those who are motivated by greed and intent on doing her harm.

Is this the ultimate conflict she has prepared for throughout the trials and tribulations of all of her incarnations?  

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Privileged: A Novel

Privileged: A NovelWhen Elise Duncan accepts a position as director of health at the Academy of Halcyon Heights, she’s relieved. Working at the prestigious private prep school allows her to be home with her children and critically ill husband during the evenings and over the summer.

Elise quickly discovers the Academy has no guidance counselors. After all, the mere presence of a counselor might attract students with issues. So instead students gravitate to Elise with their problems, by default moving her into the role of confidant. Time and again her young charges reveal how the school puts appearance and donations ahead of a safe and just learning environment.

Elise begins to understand the dynamics at work when she tries to help a student suffering with schizophrenia. There is no problem so compelling that it cannot be ignored, if the wealthy parents demand it. If a substantial donation is on the table, the Academy is willing to turn a blind eye, but there is a price.

When a major scandal hits Halcyon Heights, the school must confront deep-seated assumptions about race, social class, age, and gender. Young lives may be ruined forever in a desperate attempt to preserve the school’s prestigious reputation. Privilege, as Elise is about to discover, has rules all its own.

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A Breath Away

A Breath AwayBest Spiritual Book London Book Festival; Honorable Mention New England Book Festival; Honorable Mention Southern California Book FairA journey on the edge of now and eternity where every moment counts . . . what one couple discovers will make your own life shine.

Jeanne Selander and Fred Miller had been married less than five years and were deeply entrenched in family life with their infant daughter and precocious four-year-old son when Fred was diagnosed with a terminal illness. His doctors gave him just three months to live.

Instead of giving into fear, they chose to live each day in an unrestrained pursuit of life and love.

What they discovered during the eight years that Fred survived gives us luminous insights into love and life and the spirit as they learned to live in the present and not to give away the precious moments of this life.

This is an uplifting story of a courageous journey where love truly knows no bounds. Along with this couple we experience great joys and great sadness, the healing power of laughter and the amazing strengths of the human spirit.

The lessons of love and loss are universal and speak to all of us ~ How do you live fearlessly, joyfully and fully in the face of death? What awaits us beyond this life? How do you love someone so deeply . . . and yet learn to let them go?

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A Million Miles from Home

A Million Miles from HomeHonorable Mention Paris Book FestivalChoice by choice … When you ignore your heart’s misgivings you may find yourself somewhere you never intended to be.

Jeanne had lost the love of her life when her husband died. Lonely years passed for this single mother with two kids. The bleak world of mid-life dating brought her few prospects.

Then Paul arrived. He was a successful businessman, promising the young widow a good life and a second chance at happily ever after. So it was that Jeanne took a chance and stepped into his world looking for love and companionship while believing in marriage and family.

But what she got was something else entirely — a marriage filled with betrayal, infidelity, injury and illness. After years of trying to save a marriage that was destined for failure right from the wedding night, Jeanne had a decision to make … to save the marriage or to save herself.

Jeanne was forced to re-examine the traditional rules and values that governed her choices … choices that set her up for the misery she was living. She struggled with the choice to continue to honor longstanding traditions or to listen to the voice from within that was crying out for a new way to be.

A Million Miles from Home is the story of a very personal journey through darkness and back. You will laugh, cry, rage at the injustices and cheer at the outcome. Listen to the longings of your heart… your heart will lead you home. If I can reclaim my life … I know that you can too.

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The Healing Path Home

The Healing Path HomeHonorable Mention New York City Book Festival; Honorable Mention Great Midwestern Book FestivalWhen your life needs to change— What do you keep and what do you leave behind? When your life and your lifestyle have brought you to this place of illness, pain, and suffering, it is foolish to believe that returning to that which made you ill will ever make you well again . . . This is the time to change everything.

– Shaylah Vishnu

Jeanne’s life had not been a fairytale– not by a long shot. She had survived the devastating loss of her first husband, followed by a litany of lies, betrayal and manipulation by another man who was a husband in name only, her own life-threatening injury and illness, and a grand injustice by the legal system. Bitter and broken this feisty woman decided that her life and her happiness were worth fighting for. So began the adventure, one that forced her to face the world again and find a way to heal all that she had come through. On this rugged path, Jeanne walked out of the darkness and into the light, consciously embracing her own personal wisdom. She found a way to return to health, inner peace and along the way discovered a life of happiness. Come along on the journey as she has much to teach us on– The Healing Path Home.

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