Rising From The Ashes, it is about what no one tells you about losing everything - and finding the strength to begin again. On January 7, 2025, the Palisades Fire destroyed 6,837 structures across 23,448 acres - nearly twice the size of Manhattan - in a single week. Twelve people died. More than 100,000 were displaced. The debris took months to clear. Most survivors are still waiting to go home. This is their story. Written by one of them, for all of them.

Rising From the Ashes was built from the inside - from Linda Kaye's own account of losing her Pacific Palisades home of twenty-eight years, and from the voices of dozens of survivors who answered one question: what do you wish someone had told you? Their words are woven through every chapter. Their hard-won wisdom, their dark humor, their grief, and their stubborn refusal to stop - this book belongs to them as much as it belongs to its author. It is part memoir, part survival guide, and written for five different readers at once: the survivor in crisis, the family member who wants to help, the neighbor who does not know what to say, the caseworker who needs field-ready guidance, and the first responder who needs to understand what comes after the fire is out. Each chapter carries all five layers. You can enter at any one of them. You can set the book down and come back. There is no schedule for this. There is only the next step.

"Your mind will give out before your body does.".