FEATURED NOVEL
The Alchemy Hour
The Alchemy Hour is a provocative exploration of love, desire, identity, and the stories people tell themselves about who they are supposed to be. It asks what happens when the life carefully constructed around certainty begins to collide with truths that refuse to fit neatly into familiar definitions. At once intimate and emotionally charged, the novel explores the elusive nature of self-understanding, the difference between loving someone and trying to change them, and the unexpected ways relationships can become catalysts for both liberation and upheaval. Ultimately, The Alchemy Hour asks a deeply human question: What happens when love challenges everything you believe about who you are?
THE STORY
Dr. Helena Ross, a bestselling author and radio therapist, has spent her life helping people understand themselves. She is considered a relationship expert, even though her own love life is far from perfect. Then Dodge Harrison walks into her office. He is a young, blocked writer, struggling with a part of himself he doesn’t understand. What begins as a professional relationship to address his issues becomes something neither of them could have imagined. Until Helena’s son, Brandon, comes home from college.
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The Alchemy Hour
Some relationships transform us while others break us.
Dr. Helena has built a public life as one of America’s most trusted voices on relationships, although in her private life she struggles with loneliness and the absence of a lasting romance.
Dodge calls Dr. Helena’s show seeking her guidance and subsequently enters therapy with her. Over the next seven months, she helps him become the man he thinks he wants to be.
After Helena abruptly terminates his therapy, she invites Dodge to co-write her next book and their collaboration crosses a professional boundary.
For Helena, the relationship represents a second chance at romance. For Dodge, it offers both emotional intimacy and the creative opportunity he has long pursued.
Available November 19, 2026 · Kindle eBook preorder
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Prasad Paul Duffy
Prasad Paul Duffy is a visionary filmmaker, playwright, novelist and spiritual teacher. He was published by Simon & Schuster, and sold his first short film to HBO. A graduate of NYU, Prasad is also the author of the nonfiction books, “Dancing as the Infinite” and “You Are Love.” He cofounded The Source Spiritual Center in Los Angeles and has dedicated his life to the awakening of humanity. Following his three-year mountain retreat, Prasad is once again sharing his teachings through private online sessions, courses, workshops and public conversations, while preparing to release a new body of literary and dramatic work.
