[Best enjoyed after Book 1 (ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GC9ZCK5T) of Laurelhurst, on NetGalley until 1/26/2026, $0.99 on Kindle or free on Kindle Unlimited]

When K comes home from deployment, the distance doesn’t vanish — it settles into something new.

In Seattle, two women begin the quieter work of learning how to share space after months apart: relearning touch, rebuilding rhythm, and discovering what intimacy looks like when no one is leaving. What follows isn’t a rush back into certainty, but a steady deepening — desire reclaimed without urgency, devotion practiced in the ordinary.

From late-winter Seattle to a sunlit interlude in Maui, and back to the landscapes that shaped them long before they met, this second novel in the Laurelhurst series traces a love that grows not through drama, but through attention, trust, and chosen presence. Sensual, grounded, and quietly hopeful, it is a story about what comes after waiting — when love is no longer imagined across distance, but built deliberately, day by day.