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Backstage and Bedtime
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jul 4 2026
Pages: 274
Weight: 0.74
Height: 0.68 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some stories are built on applause.
This one is built on what happens after.Maeve Kinsella has mastered the art of holding everything together.
Single mother. Performer. Survivor.
Her life runs on precision-school runs, rehearsals, warm-ups, and the quiet, relentless work of raising her daughter, Nell, in a world that rarely makes space for privacy.
She doesn't need chaos.
She doesn't need complications. And she definitely doesn't need Julian Hart.
Once, he was everything-brilliant, magnetic, impossible to ignore.
Now he's back, standing in a rehearsal room like the past never broke them.
But Maeve is not the woman he left behind.
And Nell isn't a secret anymore.
As old feelings rise under stage lights and new boundaries are drawn in quiet kitchens, Maeve and Julian must learn something neither of them ever mastered before:
How to love without losing themselves.
Between press scrutiny, theatre politics, co-parenting realities, and the fierce protection of a child's world, they are forced to build something fragile and powerful at the same time-trust.
And trust doesn't come with a script.
Backstage and Bedtime is a deeply emotional, character-driven contemporary romance about second chances, motherhood, boundaries, and the quiet, everyday moments where real love proves itself.
Perfect for readers who love:
- Slow-burn, emotionally rich romance
- Single parent love stories
- Found family and co-parenting dynamics
- Behind-the-scenes theatre worlds
- Strong, resilient heroines
- Realistic relationships with depth and vulnerability
Because sometimes the greatest love stories don't happen on stage.
They happen in kitchens, in quiet rooms, and in the moments no one else sees.
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