One Tuesday, he was her future. The next, he was a ghost.
Emery Hayes had finally allowed herself to believe in "forever." After the shattering loss of her first husband, she’d built a fortress around her heart''until Caleb Mercer walked in. Their love was easy, built on pizza nights, mountain hikes, and a shared rhythm that felt like coming home. But then, without a word, Caleb vanished, leaving behind nothing but an empty apartment and a key tucked under a mat.
Three months later, the ghost returns.
When Emery walks into a routine behavioral health consult at the hospital, she expects a patient. She doesn't expect Caleb.
Gaunt, pale, and fighting a losing battle against leukemia, Caleb is no longer the man she knew. He says he left to protect her from another hospital vigil, another goodbye. He thought he was being a hero. Emery knows he was a coward.
But there is a secret Caleb doesn’t know—a secret growing beneath Emery’s heart. She is fourteen weeks pregnant with the child of a man she isn't sure she can ever trust again.
As Caleb fights for his life, Emery must decide if she can risk her heart for a second time on a man who might not stay. In a world of white halls and ticking clocks, they must discover if love is something that just happens—or if it’s a choice you have to make every single day.
A story of betrayal, bone marrow, and the fierce, fragile hope of starting over.
Genre: Romance
Emery Hayes had finally allowed herself to believe in "forever." After the shattering loss of her first husband, she’d built a fortress around her heart''until Caleb Mercer walked in. Their love was easy, built on pizza nights, mountain hikes, and a shared rhythm that felt like coming home. But then, without a word, Caleb vanished, leaving behind nothing but an empty apartment and a key tucked under a mat.
Three months later, the ghost returns.
When Emery walks into a routine behavioral health consult at the hospital, she expects a patient. She doesn't expect Caleb.
Gaunt, pale, and fighting a losing battle against leukemia, Caleb is no longer the man she knew. He says he left to protect her from another hospital vigil, another goodbye. He thought he was being a hero. Emery knows he was a coward.
But there is a secret Caleb doesn’t know—a secret growing beneath Emery’s heart. She is fourteen weeks pregnant with the child of a man she isn't sure she can ever trust again.
As Caleb fights for his life, Emery must decide if she can risk her heart for a second time on a man who might not stay. In a world of white halls and ticking clocks, they must discover if love is something that just happens—or if it’s a choice you have to make every single day.
A story of betrayal, bone marrow, and the fierce, fragile hope of starting over.
Genre: Romance
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