She survived the storm. She did not expect to survive him.
Laura has spent her entire career being the person who holds it together when everything falls apart. Steady hands, clear head, no room for distraction. She is very good at her job and very bad at letting anyone get close enough to matter.
Ben was supposed to be a crisis. Someone she met in the middle of chaos, under pressure, when the rules of real life did not apply. Easy to walk away from once it was over.
Except it is over now. And she cannot stop thinking about him.
He is not the kind of man who stays. She is not the kind of woman who asks anyone to. They have separate lives, old wounds, and exactly zero reasons to make this complicated.
But he shows up anyway. With her favorite flowers. Outside her hospital. In the rain.
And she is starting to think that the man she did not plan for might be the one she has been making room for all along.
After the Silence is Book Two of The Ocean Between Us trilogy. The story is not finished yet.
