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Nora Hayes has spent thirty-four years avoiding intimacy-until she meets Elise Morgan.
Patient, fearless, and quietly certain of who she is, Elise gives Nora the space to discover a kind of love she never believed she could accept. For three years, they build a life in the shadows. Then Adrian Cole enters it.
Adrian offers Nora everything Elise cannot: a marriage her family will celebrate, children, and a life that appears simple from the outside. But his devotion hides carefully constructed lies-and by the time Nora discovers the truth, Elise is gone.
Five years later, Nora is a wife, a mother, and a woman haunted by the choice she allowed someone else to make for her.
Then, on a windswept shore beneath the northern lights, she sees Elise again.
Some loves deserve a second chance.
Others return only to demand the truth.