Even the Moon Has Scars, When the Quiet Blooms

Ayanna thought she knew love.
For eleven years, she gave her heart to the wrong man - until the night she realized no one was coming to save her. Not her family. Not her friends. Only herself.

With her five-year-old son, Zion, she disappears across the ocean to Kyoto, Japan, chasing a life quiet enough to heal the bruises no one can see.

She isn't looking for love. She doesn't even trust kindness anymore.
But kindness finds her anyway - in the form of Renjiro Sato.
He's nothing like the man she ran from: soft-spoken, patient, steady. The kind of man who shows up without asking for anything in return.

Zion calls him the quiet uncle.
Ayanna calls him dangerous - because the way he looks at her feels like safety, and safety is something she's forgotten how to believe in.

In a city where the language is new, the streets are unfamiliar, and the future is uncertain, Ayanna begins to learn:
Healing is slow. Love is quieter than she imagined.
And even the moon, scarred and imperfect, still lights the dark.