Still Healing

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>After a lifetime of caring for others will she finally get to become the mother she was meant to be?</em></strong></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Tessa Bloom married the love of her life she agreed to one thing she never thought would matter-a child free life. For decades her husband's steady devotion was enough. Until the day it wasn't. After losing him to illness the silence he left behind isn't peaceful-it's hollow. Now in her late forties Tessa finds herself aching for a family she thought she'd made peace without.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her plan is simple: adopt a child build a new beginning and fill her home with laughter again. But adoption agencies don't see mothers in their forties-they see risks. Hope comes unexpectedly through a new student in her yoga class: a Child Protective Services agent who knows a pregnant teen in need of a safe place to stay.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Tessa opens her door-and her heart-but love has a way of complicating even the purest intentions. Especially when she begins to fall for the agent's ex-husband; a devoted father doing his best to hold his fractured family together.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But when the CPS agent who connected her to the teen mother discovers that Tessa and her ex-husband have found comfort in each other-and that her own children are beginning to see Tessa as home-the peace Tessa's fought so hard to protect threatens to unravel. Now Tessa must decide what she's truly ready for: the simplicity of single parenthood or the beautiful messy chaos of building a family from the broken pieces of her heart. </span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Poignant romantic and full of second chances <em>Still Healing</em> is a story for every woman who's ever wondered if her time has passed. Because sometimes the heart's deepest longing isn't behind us-it's what we're brave enough to reach for next.</strong></p>