Always Yours, Bee

From Accident to Affair to the Ever-After

By: Mia Hayes

Narrated by: E.L. Beckett

"There's a guy. He was hit by a truck."

On a rainy November day, Mia Hayes' husband left for work on his Vespa. Normally, she would have driven him, but Mia was waiting on a phone call with an editor and didn't have time.

She never saw that caring, loving version of her husband again.

The fallout from his accident - Mia's guilt and her husband's PTSD, memory loss, and depression - consumed their lives over the next five years as her laid-back husband changed into an angry man with few memories of their past. Desperate to hold her fragile family together, Mia ignored her own unraveling and plunged into bipolar depression.

As she searched for answers to unanswerable questions, Mia moved her family from San Francisco to Paris, France, before landing in a leafy Washington, DC, suburb where she tried to find a fresh start only to become embroiled in a scandal of her own making.

Through ups and downs, mental illness and bad decisions, Mia struggled with what it means to be a good wife and mother, whether saving her marriage was worth the pain, and understanding that healing is a personal journey.

Always Yours, Bee is a heartbreaking yet triumphant and brave look at a woman, a marriage, and a family falling apart and coming out stronger. Told with clarity and introspection, it captures the terror of losing the person closest to you - yourself.

©2021 Mia Hayes (P)2021 Mia Hayes

Journey of forgetting

The story is about family and survival of one unexpected incident. That’s all it take to change the directions of your life. No longer does that five year plan exist. The story was a roller coaster of emotions and decisions.

I had to stop listening at times. The narrator

Raw emotions

I love how the author show cases each event and how it perfectly describes the relationship between each individual