Fiction
Hoover’s latest contemporary romance tackles domestic violence with tenderness and emotional heft. Lily Bloom meets Ryle Kincaid on a rooftop in Boston the night Ryle loses a patient and Lily attends her abusive father’s funeral. After receiving a warning about Ryle from his sister, Lily swears she’ll never end up in another abusive home. But Lily repeats the generational cycle as Ryle shows all the same warning signs as her father. As questions about Ryle overwhelm her, Atlas Corrigan, her first love, reappears and everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.Published in 2026; 376 pages.
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