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Two years of marriage. Zero children. And a family that never wanted her there.
Nicole Henderson has loved Stephen Duncan quietly and faithfully - through whispered insults at the dinner table, through Vivian's cold stares and Stephanie's cutting words, through the ache of empty nurseries and unanswered prayers. She tells herself it will pass. That love is enough. That patience is a virtue.
It isn't.
When the man she married stops defending her - and starts becoming the weapon pointed at her - Nicole walks away with nothing but the clothes on her back and the number of her best friend, Catherine.
What she doesn't know is that Catherine's brother has been watching. Quietly. Carefully.
Anderson Whitfield doesn't do complicated. But Nicole Henderson, proud even in her ruin, is the most interesting woman he's ever met.
And he's just bought the one thing Stephen tried to use to finish her off.
After the Storm is a story about what happens when a woman stops surviving and starts living - and the man patient enough to wait for her to find out who she really is.