The Third Option

by Beca Salmon

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Pub Date 2 Mar 2026 | Archive Date 8 Apr 2026

Biographies & Memoirs | Parenting, Families, Relationships

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Description

Divorce comes for many of us, sometimes after years of quiet resignation or escalating fights. Sometimes after love slowly slips away. And sometimes, it’s a trainwreck.

From the rubble, Beca Salmon shares a memoir of an unwanted divorce, a love letter to loss, and a fierce reckoning of how she was blindsided by the end of her seventeen-year marriage.

Set against a year of dark revelations—cheating, lying, and stealing—this book braids the raw, intimate details of a dissolving relationship with a deeper examination of the chaotic rhythm of the victim-perpetrator cycle. This dance is a tired paradigm used to create blame and hold people captive to harm. Those of us who carry a personal legacy of childhood abuse are offered two options as adults: be a victim or victimize others. The Third Option asks: What if there's another way?

Divorce comes for many of us, sometimes after years of quiet resignation or escalating fights. Sometimes after love slowly slips away. And sometimes, it’s a trainwreck.

From the rubble, Beca Salmon...

A Note From the Publisher

Beca Salmon is an oncology nurse practitioner, writer, yoga teacher, and avid traveler living in Montreal. The pandemic placed her firmly in one place long enough to finish her first book, a memoir called The Third Option.
Beca lives in a multilingual and multicultural world, speaking Spanish at home, English at work and stuttering French in the streets. Despite coming from a small town in New England, she has found a way to live in an ever-widening world.

Advance Praise

"Written by a clinician who takes stock of her own life with absolute honesty, Salmon intimately details both the heartening and jarring moments, such as the quiet relief she finds while snorkeling alone in Kauai, and the visceral aftermath of tearing paper across the floor as a way to remain present. I admire Salmon for how she faces her own patterns. I was able to relate to recognizing how anger can affect entire days, and committing to therapy after seeing the fear in people we love. I am a man, and this book was incredibly enlightening to me. Readers as a whole will benefit from witnessing how a long marriage can quietly shape one's identity over decades. [...] This memoir is a beautiful account of rebuilding life after a relational rupture. Very highly recommended." - Reader's Favorite

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EDITION	Paperback
ISBN	9798891329775
PRICE	$17.99 (USD)
PAGES	232

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