Wyona Lan illustrated gift books The original approved brushed-gold Wyona Lan lettering, spelled W-Y-O-N-A L-A-N, beneath the original rose emblem.

Stories to give, stories to keep.

Illustrated gift books by Sophi Garcia

Give it to the one whose voice you still know by heart.

Three gift books. Twelve stories made to stay.

Illustrated stories of the people nearest us: the memories they carry, the lives they have lived, and the moments we almost pass by.

A daughter reads The Ones Still Here, a Wyona Lan illustrated gift book by Sophi Garcia, aloud to her mother on a navy sofa.
The gift she will ask you to read again. Each time, a little more of her becomes yours to keep.

Why We Miss The Wyona Lan Stories

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Some of the people we love most are the ones we stop seeing, folded into our mornings, our silences, the small rooms of memory we keep walking past.

The sister. The mother. The friend. The quiet one who stayed close enough to become ordinary.

These stories ask, gently, the question we spend our lives avoiding: why do we miss the ones still beside us, while there is still time to know them?

The collection

Which story feels like theirs?

Each book brings together four stories. Begin with the person you have in mind.

The Ones Still Here — gift-edition mockup with gold page edges and a satin ribbon seal · Wyona Lan

Gift One

The Ones Still Here

A keepsake edition gathering four Wyona Lan stories about the people nearest us. Illustrated with paintings, made to be held, kept, and given.

  • IThe Doctor Who Did Not Knock
  • IIThe Call That Waited
  • IIIThe Room That Remembered Her
  • IVThe Song She Thought Was Gone

Four stories · Large-print edition in preparation

A closer look at the art

Rooms you almost remember.

Quiet rooms, familiar objects, and glimpses of gold between painted layers. Open a painting and spend a little time with its detail.

A Little More Light — gift-edition mockup with gold page edges and a satin ribbon seal · Wyona Lan

Gift Two

A Little More Light

Restoration does not arrive as a new beginning.

Four more Wyona Lan stories of family, choice, and the things people keep. A keepsake edition with paintings and room for a personal inscription.

  • INo One Asked Her to Stay
  • IIShe Knew the Shorter Way
  • IIINo One Wanted It Gone
  • IVBefore We Called It Forgiveness

Four stories · Large-print edition in preparation

Still Her Own — gift-edition mockup with gold page edges and a satin ribbon seal · Wyona Lan

Gift Three

Still Her Own

Care can enter a room and still forget to ask.

A haircut. An open window. An unfinished sentence. A repaired chair. Four Wyona Lan stories about having a say in your own life.

  • IShe Had Already Chosen
  • IIHe Asked for the Window Open
  • IIIThey Finished Her Sentence
  • IVThe Chair Was Still Hers

Four stories · Large-print edition in preparation

Gift-edition design preview: the gold page edges show the proposed finish. Final print details will be confirmed before ordering.

Three illustrated gift books·Twelve stories·By Sophi Garcia

A moment to keep

Golden Drops of Life

A question from each book. A little space to linger.

From The Doctor Who Did Not Knock

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Which is the kinder truth — the one that empties the mouth, or the one that gives a voice back?
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From No One Asked Her to Stay

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Whom have we called faithful because we never gave them room to choose?
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From She Had Already Chosen

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She told me how much to take. I left what I thought she might miss. Whose was it, after that?
Read the opening

From the author

Life is a canvas of gold.

Most of it stays beneath the blue.

I gave Wyona Lan her story. Her choices I left to her, and I never asked her to explain them.

The Golden Drops of Life are where the gold shows through.

Sophi Garcia
Author, Wyona Lan Stories

Only time reveals the gold beneath.

Water wears through the blue. What no longer belongs falls away.

The rose bears thorns. Its petals may wither. Its gold remains.

Every Golden Drop carries what came before it.

Some choices are unconditional. Wyona has her reasons.

The gold beneath

There is more within a life
than we see at first glance.

Our digital illustrations carry Mirogold™ blisters, the original signature of Wyona Lan art. Small squares of gold, no two quite alike, rest across the whole painting and catch the light as if raised from the surface, much as a memory can bring a familiar place to life.

For Wyona Lan, that light speaks of what a person carries within: the years, the love, and the stories still worth hearing.

The gold is part of the digital artwork. Physical cover and page finishes will be confirmed with each edition.

A signature of care.

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Our custom Wyona Lan signature lettering brings the warmth of a handwritten dedication to the page. Small water-drop finishes soften the capital letters; fine curls give the lowercase a gentler ending. For us, the water drop represents a small act of care whose effect carries beyond its moment.

A rose to begin.
A rose to remember.

The original gold rose without leaves: a gold flower on a bare thorned stem.

Wyona’s favorite flower becomes the collection’s quiet signature. The framed gold rose opens each chapter, giving its story a place of honor. The rose with leaves and fine gold lines marks the close of the reading.

The withered rose, its stem bare of leaves, belongs to the chapter’s quiet end pages. It leaves room to breathe and reflect. Its gold remains, a reminder that change does not erase what is precious.

The pleasure of giving a book

Write their name inside.
Make time for their story.

A gold rose held within an ornate gold frame · Wyona Lan

For your mom or dad. An aunt whose table always has room for you. A friend you wish you saw more often.

Give it at Christmas, bring it on a Thanksgiving visit, or mark the New Year with a few pages together. For someone living in long-term care, it may be a welcome reason to sit, read, and talk.

Hardcover editions in preparation

We’re checking every page and print detail with care. Ordering opens once our final quality checks are complete. Prices and delivery details will be confirmed before you order.

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Classic $50 per book · $130 for all three. Gold $80 per book · $200 for all three.

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