When nineteen-year-old Eliza Martin discovers she's pregnant from a night she wishes she could forget, the world expects her to make a different choice. But Eliza, against all odds, chooses to keep the baby-a decision that stuns her small-town community and isolates her from almost everyone she knew.
Determined to give her child the love and safety she never felt again after the assault, Eliza begins the long road of healing, through therapy, young motherhood, and the slow rebuilding of trust.
She doesn't expect to meet Jonah-a gentle mechanic with a quiet soul and a past of his own. His presence isn't loud or demanding, just patient. Safe. Kind.
As their bond deepens, Eliza must learn that intimacy can mean choice, comfort, and consent. But when whispers of the past resurface and threaten the new life she's building, Eliza is faced with the hardest healing isn't linear-but it is possible.
A moving story of survival, motherhood, and rediscovering love after trauma.