THORN

By Clyde Matthews

After losing his beloved wife, widowed Cleotis Mayfield retreats into silence, grief, and the slow unraveling of his will to live. But when a mysterious woman enters his life—gentle, radiant, and strangely familiar—his world begins to shift. She claims no past, yet seems to know his pain intimately. Her mission is divine: to restore Cleotis’s spirit and earn her wings. But love was never part of the plan.

Thorn is a tender, luminous story about second chances, the unseen forces that guide us, and the kind of love that transcends even death.