Lena Whitmore

Zoe Marshall looked like she was living the dream, and from the outside, she was. Her career was soaring, her apartment could’ve been torn from the pages of a luxury magazine, and on her arm was the man she once believed she’d grow old with. To the world, it all glittered. Picture perfect. Effortless. But behind the polished smiles and selected memories, was a truth she could barely admit to herself. The fairytale didn’t just fade, it shattered. Quietly, slowly. Until the silence between them became louder than the vows they’d made. What no one saw was the way she cried in the shower just to feel something. Or how the bed, no matter how soft, felt cold even when he was lying right beside her. She had everything. And yet, somehow, nothing at all. Ethan stopped seeing her. The dinners grew quiet. The gestures stopped. And slowly, heartbreakingly, so did their love. So, she left. She chose herself. And then everything changed. Ethan Carter, now her ex-husband, is blindsided by the wreckage. For the first time, the man who always had it together has nothing. Not Zoe. Not peace. Not a clue how he let her slip through his fingers. And in that silence, regret sets in, and grows into something louder than he ever expected: the need to make it right. But can a love that's been wounded, bent, and broken really find its way back? Ethan is fighting like hell to show her he's not the same man who once shattered her heart. Not the man who let the light go out in her eyes. Every step he takes now is heavy with regret, with hope, with the weight of words he never said and the damage they left behind. And Zoe? She’s standing at the edge of the past, staring into the remains of what they were, wondering if love is ever enough. Wondering if a second chance is a blessing… or just another way to bleed. Because sometimes healing brings people closer. And sometimes, it sets them free. So the question remains, when the dust finally settles, will they find their way back to each other? Or will they finally find themselves?