Waiting To Break

<p><strong>The accident took his voice but she heard him anyway.</strong></p><p>Former rockstar Gabe Whitlock has been hidden away in a long-term care facility ever since an on-stage accident stole his music his movement and even his voice. No one's thought about him in years.</p><p>Anna Lin is still raw from losing her mother and battling the panic attacks that derailed her college career. Living with her father again feels like a step backward-until he gets her a job as the activities coordinator at Rosehaven.</p><p>What she doesn't expect is to find Gabe Whitlock former frontman and guitarist of <em>Pressure Front</em> quietly wasting away in a nursing home in Western Massachusetts.</p><p>Drawn together by music and art Anna and Gabe forge an unlikely bond. But when Gabe's sister schemes to seize control of his estate Anna and a ragtag band of residents push back.</p><p>Their defiance threatens to cost Anna the fragile new life she's building-and Gabe the last shreds of independence he has left.</p><p><strong>Waiting to Break is an emotionally powerful deeply romantic journey </strong>about finding your voice after losing everything the dignity of choosing who you love and the courage it takes to find your own path in life.</p><p><em>For fans of soulful emotionally charged romance novels and authors like Jojo Moyes Jodi Picoult and Nicholas Sparks.</em></p><p> </p><p><em>~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~</em></p><p>This book features the <strong>found family trope</strong> with lots of fun side characters helping our main characters get to their HEA a very <strong>slow burn later-in-life age gap</strong> <strong>relationship</strong>.<br><br>There are themes of <strong>healing from loss </strong>of a parent and spouse as well as explorations of what love hope desire and independence look like at the end of life. </p><p>It has an <strong>incomplete quadriplegic</strong> hero with a severe form of TBI who uses a power wheelchair and an AAC speaking device. It has a heroine with an <strong>anxiety disorder</strong>.</p><p><strong><u>Book Club Discussion Guide available at RuthMadisonBooks.com</u></strong></p><p> </p><p><em>~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~~****~</em></p><p><strong>Content Includes:</strong> institutional neglect medical trauma grief panic attacks/anxiety power dynamics in caregiving public debate about right to die false accusations elder death loss of a parent<br><br><strong>Spice Level</strong> is a few scenes of open-door intimacy.</p>