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Book Title: From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships: Navigating life's troubled waters with resilience and hope
Author:Rhona Morrison
Published:2025
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From Crime Scenes to Cruise Ships is a powerful reminder that even the most unexpected life changes can lead to profound personal growth. Through her candid and uplifting memoir, Dr. Rhona Morrison shows readers how to navigate loss, uncertainty, and reinvention with courage and curiosity. After the sudden loss of her husband, Rhona didn’t retreat - she explored. Her story offers practical inspiration for anyone facing a major life shift, whether it’s grief, retirement, or a change in identity. By sharing how she launched an art business, published a book, and embraced life as a cruise ship lecturer, Rhona encourages others to see endings as beginnings. This book helps people reframe their own challenges as opportunities to discover new passions, purpose, and joy. Warm, witty, and real, it’s a roadmap for anyone wondering what’s next? - proving that life after loss can be not just possible, but extraordinary.

