Zia's life has always been quiet, peaceful, and full of love-until her once passionate marriage to Austin, a high-powered lawyer, crumbled under the weight of ambition and isolation. Their move to New York, a dream for Austin to build a glamorous life, left Zia alone in a cold, empty house, miles away from her family and unable to shake the feeling that something was missing. Worse still, the constant phone calls from another woman send Zia spiraling into doubts, leaving her to wonder if Austin is cheating.
When Zia's father, sick and nearing the end of his life, expresses a wish to spend one last month with family on a camping trip, Zia begs Austin to come, hoping for his support. He refuses, until, at the last minute. Surrounded by her vibrant, loving family, Zia is determined to heal both her heart and her marriage.
But Austin, cold and distant, seems consumed by his work, and Zia's suspicions continue to gnaw at her. Yet, as the days pass and Austin begins to reconnect with the man he once was, the spark of their love starts to flicker again. Zia is torn between her desire to forgive and the haunting images of betrayal she can't erase.
Can their marriage survive the lies, the distance, and the painful truths, or has too much been lost to ever truly heal? As they rediscover each other on the road to reconciliation, Zia faces the hardest question of all: Can she forgive him and build a life they both deserve?
She ran from her wedding the day she found out the groom was expecting a baby with someone else. Now, with a broken heart and no suitcase, she's starting over in London...
Two men, one new life and a second chance she never saw coming.
Isabella Solène Hart was supposed to be a bride. Instead, she became a woman who walked away from betrayal, from shame, from the version of love that left her undone.
London offers her nothing but silence and strangers and that's exactly what she needs until it starts to offer more. A job at a luxury PR firm, a flat that slowly becomes a home, a local café with warm coffee and warmer smiles, a neighbour with a cat named Rufus and a shopkeeper named Robert, gruff, loyal, quietly becoming the father figure she never had.
But nothing shakes her more than the two men who begin to orbit her new life.
Skylar, the charming café owner with kind eyes, he makes her laugh again, makes her feel again, but when it matters most... he stays silent.
And Sebastian, the enigmatic CEO with ice-blue eyes and power in every breath. He shouldn't be looking at her the way he does, he shouldn't know who she is, but he does and what begins as a spark quickly threatens to set fire to the walls she's still rebuilding.
Now Bella must navigate more than just a second chance, she must decide what kind of love she's ready for and whether she can open her heart again without losing herself in the process.
It's a story of loss, of starting over, and the two men who force her to face what love really means.
Of heartbreak turned healing, of strangers turned family.
It's not just about falling in love, it's about who you become when your world shatters... and you choose to rise anyway.