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The Year She Stopped Waiting: "The right love won't make you wait."
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Aug 25 2025
Pages: 132
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.31 Width: 5.25 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
You can spend years giving someone your heart, your loyalty, your best days-but if marriage never comes, you're left holding empty promises. Daphne Taylor knows this too well. Three proposals, three betrayals. Twenty years of almost with Jelani Brooks: the man who loved her loudly yet trusted her the least. He'd show up at her clinic unannounced, call at 3:30 a.m. to demand proof of her devotion, and wear jealousy like a second skin. Daphne kept hoping that this time would be different.
Then a rare cancer turns her life inside out-and Jelani walks away and marries someone else.
Left with a drawer of ring boxes and a body full of fight, Daphne has to choose the impossible: keep waiting for a man who never chose her, or finally choose herself. The Year She Stopped Waiting is a soulful, contemporary women's fiction novel about breaking cycles, healing from emotional harm, and discovering that the truest promise is the one you make to your own heart.
Content notes: Emotional abuse/jealousy, gaslighting, medical crisis (cancer), grief, recovery. Ultimately hopeful and empowering.
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