Sri Lankan educator and transformational mindset coach Rashida Abdulhussain announces the publication of her debut novel, Seven Days to Serendipity, brought to readers worldwide by Cleverfox Publishing. A deeply moving work of fiction that traces two broken lives across the luminous landscapes of Sri Lanka, it reveals how one week of radical honesty can change everything.
Part literary novel, part philosophical roadmap, Seven Days to Serendipity follows Ardeshir—a man shaped by loss, reinvention, and an unquiet heart. Forced to flee Sri Lanka as a boy, during the civil war, he rebuilt his life in Canada, rising to become a highly successful businessman and a respected life coach. Yet despite years of inner work and guiding others toward healing, Ardeshir remains tethered to unresolved fragments of his past—memories he has softened, but never fully faced. Drawn back to Serendib—the ancient, poetic name for Sri Lanka—he returns as a man still searching for peace . There, he hires a young local guide, Armaan, never suspecting that this quiet stranger will become an unexpected mirror—reflecting the truths, wounds, and questions Ardeshir has spent a lifetime trying to outgrow.
Armaan, brilliant but paralysed by poverty and the shadow of his father’s tragic death, is, in Ardeshir’s eyes, a haunting echo of his own unhealed past. What begins as a tourist arrangement evolves into an unlikely mentorship — one in which the teacher must reckon with whether he truly believes what he is teaching.
“The greatest discovery is rarely a destination, but the moment you allow serendipity — the art of happy accidents — to guide you home.”
— Rashida Abdulhussain, Seven Days to Serendipity
ABOUT THE BOOK
Seven Days to Serendipity follows Ardeshir and Armaan across seven intensive days in which Ardeshir shares a powerful, actionable philosophy drawn from ancient wisdom and modern psychological insight — challenging Armaan to confront his deepest fears, embrace radical gratitude, and discover the unbreakable inner “why” that makes change possible. Yet as Ardeshir pours hope into this young man, he slowly, painfully, comes to understand that giving Armaan a future is the very act that will finally unlock his own.
The novel weaves together themes of intergenerational trauma, the psychology of fear, and the quiet, subversive power of serendipity — all set against the vivid, sensory backdrop of Sri Lanka’s coastlines, highlands, and ancient cities. It is, at once, a page-turning story and a practical philosophy of living that readers can carry far beyond the final page.
Cleverfox Publishing is proud to bring this transformative debut to a global readership hungry for stories that heal as much as they inspire.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Rashida Abdulhussain (Sabiha Nasir Hussain) is a distinguished English language educator, transformational mindset strategist, and founder of Mindset Coaching Consultancy in Colombo, Sri Lanka. With over three decades of academic excellence — including students achieving global distinctions at IGCSE level — she holds a Master of Education and an MA in TESL.
Her coaching practice bridges intellectual mastery with emotional resilience, integrating evidence-based methodologies alongside NLP, EFT tapping, and the Law of Attraction. Through Seven Days to Serendipity, Rashida extends her life’s work — guiding ambitious individuals toward clarity, confidence, and the conscious design of a life of meaning — into the realm of transformative fiction.
