[Best enjoyed after Book 1 (ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0GC9ZCK5T) of Laurelhurst]

When K comes home, the waiting ends — but closeness begins.

After months of distance shaped by deployment, the life they protected from opposite sides of the world must now be lived in the same space. What follows is not a rush back into certainty, but a careful recalibration: desire relearned, routines renegotiated, and intimacy tested by presence rather than absence.

Set between late-winter Seattle, a quiet interlude in Maui, and a return to the landscapes that formed them, this second novel in the Laurelhurst series follows two women learning how to be close without bracing for loss. The romance here is not loud or performative. It lives in attention, in consistency, in the choice to stay when nothing demands escape.

Sensual, grounded, and emotionally precise, this is a love story about what happens after longing — when devotion is no longer hypothetical, and building a life together becomes an intentional act. For readers who understand that adult romance is rarely dramatic, but deeply consequential, this book offers a portrait of love chosen steadily, and meant to last.