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After losing the only person who ever truly wanted her, Avalina Caradine is left drowning in grief, shame, and a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder.
A failed suicide attempt lands her in treatment, and when she's released, she has nowhere to go but shelters and park benches. She scrapes together a fragile routine-working at a small all-day breakfast diner, attending court-ordered therapy-until five strangers start showing up every morning, not just for the coffee.
Hoko, Bakari, Finn, Darnell, and Lionel each carry their own histories, accents, and quiet scars. They see her long black curls, her careful smiles, the way she tugs her sleeves down, and the nights she sleeps on a bench. Without hesitation, they offer her a room in their big, slightly run-down
Victorian house. No rent. No strings. Just safety.
Avalina never expected to stay.
She never expected to be seen.
And she definitely never expected to fall-slowly, deeply, terrifyingly-in love with all five of them.
What starts as gratitude becomes friendship, then affection, then something bigger than any of them planned. They don't ask her to choose. They never make her feel like she has to. And as trust grows, so does the possibility that love doesn't always come in pairs-it can come in six.
A story of healing, chosen family, mental health recovery, and a relationship built on patience, communication, and the radical belief that one heart can be big enough for many hands to hold.