Publisher's Synopsis
CW: This book includes drug/substance abuse, grief, depression, loss of a loved one, infertility, and trans/homophobia
Picking up the scattered pieces of your soul is harder than you think.Forty-year-old Emma Leirion just leapt out of the closet with a steamy, public makeout session with her new friend, Sandra. In the wake of her own internalized homophobia and that of her family and pastor, new feelings smash Emma from every direction and prompt her to pause more intimacy with Sandra. As reality sets in, Emma realizes a queer relationship is more complicated than she may be ready for.
Sandra Martinez has spent the last two decades running away from her problems and the last five years healing and rebuilding her life brick by brick. Her sobriety, complex trauma, and recent reconciliation with her daughter and grandson are already precariously balanced. Now with her budding relationship with Emma off to a rocky start, Sandra isn't sure how much more she can handle.
As head of Stronger Together, a peer support program in Lederville, heartbreaker and recovering addict, Gwen Conner, is trying to avoid another relapse. After her most recent love interest, Sandra, ended up in another's arms, Gwen teeters closer to the edge. Unwilling to put her career, clean time, and life on the line, Gwen must finally step up and deal with her main issue: the death of Nadia, her one, true love.
Can they each find a way forward when pieces of their past threaten to drag them back into old patterns?
