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Sequel to "We Could Have Been Free"
After watching her father die in her arms and losing Jesse to the silence of a shattered world, Amber White is left with a photo frame, a dying promise, and an old pendant that still rests heavy around her neck.
She chooses exile over revenge. Alaska over Albuquerque.
And in the snow-covered quiet, she opens a bakery - the only thing her father ever asked of her when he was just "Mr. White," her high school chemistry teacher.
But the recipes she bakes aren't just sweet.
Each one is a memory. A mourning. A message.
A hope that maybe one day, a lost boy with scarred hands and tired eyes might walk through the door again.
Because love never left the kitchen.
And Amber still remembers how to make his favorite cookies.
"We Could Still Be Free" is a haunting, tender sequel about grief, memory, and the way love lingers - in flour-dusted notes, in old songs on the radio, and in the way someone stirs their coffee just right.