The Doublewide: A Feel-Good Coming of Age Novel

Candy just wanted a home she could afford. What she found was a whole new beginning.

Candy Schein has always lived life from the sidelines—quiet, overlooked, and perfectly fine staying invisible. Life taught her early that silence was safer, so she made a habit of disappearing into the background.

Then she spots it: a dented, blue doublewide—a kind of faded but beautiful blue, oversized and deeply discounted. It’s imperfect. It’s bold. And somehow, it feels like home.

Buying it should be simple. Instead, it pulls Candy into a world she’s avoided for years: talking to strangers, navigating paperwork, asking for help. To claim her new home, she’ll have to step forward, speak up, and face everything she thought she’d left behind—including the possibility of being loved.

The Doublewide is a heartfelt, humorous story of self-discovery, second chances, and finding unexpected joy in the messiest, most human parts of life.