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The Season After You
Love didn’t die with him. It just changed shape.
After losing the love of her life, Iris Holloway isn’t looking for second chances—especially not the kind that come wrapped in leather, tattoos, and rough hands that feel like home. Grief carved her into something quiet, something soft. But when a broken dirt bike and a curious ten-year-old lead her straight into the orbit of three very different men, everything begins to shift.
Malcolm is the steady one.
August is the storm.
Elias is the shelter.
Together, they don’t just touch her body—they touch the parts of her she thought she’d buried with Elijah. What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes something sacred, something feral. Something worth risking her heart for… again.
But healing isn’t linear, and building a new life means more than just passion—it means plans, parenting, boundaries, and the terrifying what if I let myself belong again?
The Season After You is a standalone “why choose” romance about grief, rebirth, found family, and the kind of love that doesn't replace—it expands. Tender, steamy, and deeply emotional, this story is for every reader who’s ever wondered if their second chapter could be even more beautiful than the first.
Content
The Season After You explores themes of grief, emotional healing, and trauma recovery following the loss of a spouse. It contains references to death, past depression, emotional numbness, and discussion of suicidal ideation (non-graphic, non-active).
This book also includes explicit consensual sexual content, including group intimacy and light BDSM elements (breath play, restraints).
While this is a story of hope, healing, and found family, please care for your heart as needed.
After losing the love of her life, Iris Holloway isn’t looking for second chances—especially not the kind that come wrapped in leather, tattoos, and rough hands that feel like home. Grief carved her into something quiet, something soft. But when a broken dirt bike and a curious ten-year-old lead her straight into the orbit of three very different men, everything begins to shift.
Malcolm is the steady one.
August is the storm.
Elias is the shelter.
Together, they don’t just touch her body—they touch the parts of her she thought she’d buried with Elijah. What begins as an unlikely friendship becomes something sacred, something feral. Something worth risking her heart for… again.
But healing isn’t linear, and building a new life means more than just passion—it means plans, parenting, boundaries, and the terrifying what if I let myself belong again?
The Season After You is a standalone “why choose” romance about grief, rebirth, found family, and the kind of love that doesn't replace—it expands. Tender, steamy, and deeply emotional, this story is for every reader who’s ever wondered if their second chapter could be even more beautiful than the first.
Content
The Season After You explores themes of grief, emotional healing, and trauma recovery following the loss of a spouse. It contains references to death, past depression, emotional numbness, and discussion of suicidal ideation (non-graphic, non-active).
This book also includes explicit consensual sexual content, including group intimacy and light BDSM elements (breath play, restraints).
While this is a story of hope, healing, and found family, please care for your heart as needed.
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381 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 31, 2025
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July 30, 2025
This was a heartbreakingly sweet story about a woman who loses the love of her life—the father of her child. Grief forces her to keep going, even as depression threatens to swallow her whole. She’s barely hanging on, simply surviving for her son, until she slowly begins to rediscover what happiness and meaning can look like again. Through sleepless nights and silent tears, she learns to live not just for her child, but for herself.
Along the way, she meets three men who step into her world with kindness, support, patience, and a love so steady it feels almost unreal. Each one shows up in different ways, but all help her believe that maybe—just maybe—she doesn’t have to carry the weight alone. That she’s allowed to love again, and that healing doesn’t mean forgetting.
This book is heartwarming, emotional, funny, and full of healing. Wrapped in the charm of three unforgettable men:
• Grumpy x Sunshine
• Goofy x Brat
• Rescued x Rescuer
• Friends to lovers
Along the way, she meets three men who step into her world with kindness, support, patience, and a love so steady it feels almost unreal. Each one shows up in different ways, but all help her believe that maybe—just maybe—she doesn’t have to carry the weight alone. That she’s allowed to love again, and that healing doesn’t mean forgetting.
This book is heartwarming, emotional, funny, and full of healing. Wrapped in the charm of three unforgettable men:
• Grumpy x Sunshine
• Goofy x Brat
• Rescued x Rescuer
• Friends to lovers
August 13, 2025
The Season After You — tender, steel-spined, and beautifully human!
This story starts with a day so ordinary it aches, then cracks it open to show what love looks like after the unthinkable. Iris is a widow navigating grief without melodrama or shortcuts, and the book’s great trick is how grounded it feels: coffee mugs, baseball sign-ups, a beat-up dirt bike, the quiet loyalty of in-laws who show up. When the world expands to a motorcycle shop and a tattoo studio, the book doesn’t lunge for romance; it earns connection through small, careful acts. Multiple POVs add texture without muddying the water, and the writing has that rare, lived-in clarity: tactile, compassionate, and unafraid to be still. There’s humor in the right places, a thread of myth and ritual that feels thoughtful rather than flashy, and a steady belief that healing isn’t a plot twist but a practice. I finished with a lump in my throat and the sense that ordinary kindness can be epic. Highly recommended.
This story starts with a day so ordinary it aches, then cracks it open to show what love looks like after the unthinkable. Iris is a widow navigating grief without melodrama or shortcuts, and the book’s great trick is how grounded it feels: coffee mugs, baseball sign-ups, a beat-up dirt bike, the quiet loyalty of in-laws who show up. When the world expands to a motorcycle shop and a tattoo studio, the book doesn’t lunge for romance; it earns connection through small, careful acts. Multiple POVs add texture without muddying the water, and the writing has that rare, lived-in clarity: tactile, compassionate, and unafraid to be still. There’s humor in the right places, a thread of myth and ritual that feels thoughtful rather than flashy, and a steady belief that healing isn’t a plot twist but a practice. I finished with a lump in my throat and the sense that ordinary kindness can be epic. Highly recommended.
August 3, 2025
DNF 10%
There are several reasons why I choose to DNF the book not related to the writing style. First, the author didn't know that any number under 100 is written out (nine and not 9). Second, there are comma splices and fragmented sentences on every page. Third, the author doesn't know how to format paragraphs and indents correctly. And the worst of them, the author didn't google (or take a writing class) to understand how to format terms of endearments/nicknames correctly.
The writing was disjointed and stunted, and a lot of telling not showing was present within the first 10%.
The tone of voice didn't change between the FMC and Malcolm.
With all of those problems, I didn't see the need to continue reading.
Terms of endearments included within the first 10%:
Darling, love, doll, dear, and dolly.
Like come on. Pick one and stick with it.
There are several reasons why I choose to DNF the book not related to the writing style. First, the author didn't know that any number under 100 is written out (nine and not 9). Second, there are comma splices and fragmented sentences on every page. Third, the author doesn't know how to format paragraphs and indents correctly. And the worst of them, the author didn't google (or take a writing class) to understand how to format terms of endearments/nicknames correctly.
The writing was disjointed and stunted, and a lot of telling not showing was present within the first 10%.
The tone of voice didn't change between the FMC and Malcolm.
With all of those problems, I didn't see the need to continue reading.
Terms of endearments included within the first 10%:
Darling, love, doll, dear, and dolly.
Like come on. Pick one and stick with it.
August 6, 2025
Quick and easy read if that is what you are looking for. Love the idea of three guys fighting for your attention.
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