Perfectly Enough : How Claire and Livia Learned to Stay

by Deb Baron

Snowbound in a secluded cabin in the French Alps, Claire Du Pont and Livia Russo step out of the lives that demand so much of them and into a rare, unguarded stillness.

Known from Byrne(d) In Her Place, Claire and Livia discover that intimacy does not always announce itself in heat or urgency. Sometimes it arrives quietly, in shared mornings, lingering conversations, and the ease of existing beside one another without performance or expectation.

As the snow falls and time slows, they speak about visibility and coming out, about growing up with assumptions that never fit, about the first moment they realized they were in love with a woman. They reflect on desire, on choosing to stay, and on the deeper courage it takes to be content.

Perfectly Enough is a sensual, tender novella about love after longing. About domestic intimacy. About learning that perfection is not something to strive for, but something you recognize when you stop trying to be anything other than who you are.

A quiet, romantic companion story in the Byrne Saga, this novella is for readers who believe that sometimes the most powerful love stories are the ones where nothing needs to be proven.

77 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 10, 2026

About the author

Surgeon by day. Storyteller by night. Believer that love, like fire, leaves its mark.

Deb Baron is the author of the Byrne Saga — a sweeping, emotionally charged series exploring the ties of love, legacy, and the quiet defiance of those who rebuild their lives after loss. Her stories travel between Boston’s glittering skyline and the wild Atlantic coast of Kerry, Ireland, following powerful women who find redemption, tenderness, and truth in unexpected places.

A surgeon by profession, Deb has spent years witnessing both the fragility and resilience of the human heart. That understanding of impermanence and repair shapes her writing — where passion and vulnerability meet, and every scar becomes part of the story.

She lives in the Netherlands with her wife, their two children, and a small menagerie of furry companions who insist on appearing in her writing sessions. When she’s not in the operating room or lost in a manuscript, she can be found cooking for her family, playing the piano, or walking beneath a sky that reminds her of Ireland.

Deb believes that stories, like people, are defined not by what breaks them — but by what they become after the fire.