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Love After the Storm
Paperback
Publisher: Blackbird Publishing
Published: Jul 21 2026
Pages: 478
Weight: 0.93
Height: 1.19 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
After surviving thirteen years of emotional manipulation, control, and heartbreak, Harper Bennett isn't looking for love.
She's looking for peace.
A devoted single mother of three and a medical insurance specialist working long hours while finishing school, Harper has rebuilt her life from the ground up after divorcing her narcissistic ex-husband. Every day is a balancing act between work, homework, soccer practices, school projects, and protecting her children from the lingering chaos their father leaves behind.
Love simply isn't part of the plan.
Then she runs into Jonas Carter. After not seeing him for years, their paths rarely crossed paths even though they stayed close to the same town after high school.
Jonas was the teenage crush she never quite got over-the quiet farm boy with the crooked grin and broad shoulders who made her heart race from across crowded high school hallways. Back then, Harper was convinced he never noticed her.
She couldn't have been more wrong.
Now a farrier known throughout the county, Jonas spends his days shoeing horses and working with his hands. Years of labor have built strength into every inch of him, but beneath the rough exterior is a man carrying scars of his own. Divorced. Levi has spent years trying to break cycles created by a childhood shaped by criticism, emotional neglect, and impossible expectations.
Seeing Harper again feels like coming home.
What starts as stolen conversations and coffee dates quickly becomes something neither of them expected-a second chance at the first love they never had.
But falling in love is the easy part.
Ex-spouses who weaponize co-parenting.
Harper's vindictive ex-husband, furious that she's moved on, escalates his harassment and turns his family against her.
As Jonas becomes Harper's safe place, standing between her and the man who once tried to break her spirit, Harper teaches Jonas that strength isn't found in silence.
Healing doesn't happen overnight.
Families aren't made by blood alone.
And love isn't always found in the life you planned.
Sometimes... it finds you after the storm.
A heartwarming and emotional contemporary romance about resilience, found family, healing old wounds, and choosing love-even when the world makes it difficult.
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