The Love We Brew
Hardcover
Publisher: Runebeast Publishing
Published: Feb 14 2025
Pages: 388
Weight: 1.31
Height: 0.88 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
Connor Ebin has mastered the art of survival.
As the CEO of a wildly successful game studio, he knows how to lead, how to build, how to keep moving. What he doesn't know-what he refuses to learn-is how to live with the wreckage left behind by the deaths of his wife and daughter. So he works. He smiles. He endures. And he ignores the hollow ache carving him out from the inside.
Michelle Shelly Lockhart knows survival in a very different way.
A young woman, living on the streets and hardened by a life of neglect, betrayal, and nights spent wondering where she'll sleep, Shelly trusts no one. Hope is a dangerous thing, and love belongs in fairy tales, not in the brutal reality she's been forced to survive. Still, beneath her guarded silence is a heart that has never stopped longing for safety, tenderness, and a place to belong.
When a chance encounter throws them into each other's orbit, neither expects the quiet connection that begins to grow between them.
It starts small-shared coffee, gentle conversations, awkward smiles, moments of laughter that feel too precious to name. Friendship blooms in the spaces where pain used to live untouched. And as Connor and Shelly slowly lower their defenses, they begin to find something neither thought they could have again: comfort, trust, and the fragile first signs of healing.
But trauma does not loosen its grip easily.
Connor is haunted by grief, guilt, and the fear that loving again would somehow betray the family he lost. Shelly carries the scars of abandonment and survival, terrified that depending on someone will only leave her with more to lose. As danger from Shelly's past closes in and old wounds are forced back open, the bond between them is tested in ways neither of them are prepared for.
What grows between them is slow, tender, and hard-won-a love built not on rescue, but on choosing each other, day by day, through fear, grief, and the painful work of learning to trust.
The Love We Brew: Hope and Healing Blend is an emotional, deeply romantic story of found family, friendship turned to love, and two broken souls discovering that healing doesn't mean forgetting the past-it means daring to believe in a future.
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