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Some marriages don't end because love disappears.
They end because grief quietly takes its place.
Layla Scott and Tristan Scott were once the couple everyone envied.
She was a brilliant attorney who believed love could survive anything. He was a celebrated heart surgeon who vowed to protect her heart forever.
Together, they dreamed of building a family.
Instead, they buried three babies.
Each loss leaves Layla drowning in guilt, convinced her broken body has failed the man she loves. Tristan hides his own heartbreak behind impossible work hours, believing that carrying the burden alone is what a husband is supposed to do.
Until the silence between them becomes louder than their vows.
When one devastating mistake shatters the fragile trust holding their marriage together, both Layla and Tristan are forced to confront a painful truth:
Sometimes love isn't enough to save what grief has already broken.
If Only is an emotionally charged story of love, betrayal, forgiveness, and self-discovery-about two people learning that the greatest act of love isn't always holding on.
Sometimes...
it's finding the strength to let go.