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In Her Own Backyard by Ashley Hanna-Morgan

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In Her Own Backyard

Every street holds a secret . . .

New to the neighborhood and reeling from the traumatic birth of her second child, Marlowe Moore is barely holding it together. Battling postpartum depression and anxiety, she’s desperate for stability.

But when she learns that a woman who once lived in her family’s new home vanished without a trace, Marlowe becomes obsessed. As strange things happen and neighborly smiles feel like veiled threats, Marlowe can’t shake the feeling that someone is hiding something.

She spirals further into paranoia fixated on the abandoned case and determined to seek justice. But how can a woman who feels lost find a missing woman?

Juggling the demands of her beloved family and her harrowing mental illness, Marlowe doesn’t realize she is caught in a cat-and-mouse game that could cost her everything … including her life.

In Her Own Backyard will be available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble on March 26, 2026

In Her Own Backyard Author Ashley Hanna-Morgan

Ashley Hanna-Morgan is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) certified in Perinatal Mental Health (PMH-C), as well as infertility, trauma, grief and loss. Ashley earned her Bachelor’s in English Literature at UCLA. After attending Baylor University for her Master’s in Social Work, Ashley taught parenting skills training in the home and provided therapy to children and adolescents with externalizing behavior disorders. With a soft spot for seniors from many wonderful experiences with her grandparents, Ashley subsequently worked in hospice for the next seven years, with a parallel stint writing for a winery in Sonoma. Creating recipes for wine-pairings was a life-affirming counterbalance!

Ashley became passionate about helping others with Perinatal Mental Health struggles from a trauma-informed and systems-level perspective after she worked through it personally. In addition to her work as a psychotherapist, she writes about mental health to advocate for change and inspire hope.In 2016, she wrote the Afterglow Curriculum and started the first free Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Mindfulness Therapy based support group in Los Angeles for parents with Postpartum Depression and Anxiety.

In 2017, she published a collection of poetry called I Gave Birth to My Heart that she hopes will throw back the curtains and shed some light on what Postpartum Depression and Anxiety actually feel like, as well as, most importantly, what the recovery looked like. She is still a volunteer for Postpartum Support International, and a therapist in private practice in Nevada and California, where she now lives with her husband, Jayson, and her daughters and inspiration, Emerie & Aerelyn.

When Ashley is not advocating for parents’ mental health, she loves to explore nature, practice yoga, experiment in the kitchen, read with a cup of tea, meditate, dance, and write. Her forthcoming book, In Her Own Backyard is her first novel and will be released 3.26.26!

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