You Found Me After Everything

<p><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You Found Me After Everything</strong></p><p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Whispers Beneath the Pines - Book Two</em></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>By Rae Lipari</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Odessa Vallen thought she had her future figured out-until a knock on the door changed everything. One stormy night her husband leaves and never comes home. In the quiet that follows grief becomes her shadow. It shapes her days colors every room in her house and leaves her trying to be strong for the daughter who still asks when Daddy's coming back.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>She's not ready for anything more. Not laughter. Not love. And certainly not the quiet steadiness of Gabe Monroe.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Gabe is new to Whispering Pines a contractor with calloused hands and a heart still healing from his own wreckage. He didn't plan to fall for a woman still mourning. But sometimes the softest connections are the ones that change everything. A cup of coffee. A shared silence. A child's laugh. Slowly Gabe becomes the first light Odessa sees through the fog.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Set against the hush of a small town winter </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>You Found Me After Everything</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a deeply emotional story about finding hope after heartbreak and learning that sometimes love finds you exactly when you stop looking.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>A tender slow-burn romance filled with found family emotional healing and the kind of love that sneaks up on you-quietly completely and right when you need it most.</span></p>