Still Here

Some loves don't fade. They wait.Marcy Reyes spent decades being exactly who everyone needed her to be. The corner office. The right answers. The woman who stayed until staying meant something she wasn't ready to face. Retirement was supposed to be the reward. The cottage in Havenridge was supposed to be simple.It needs far more work than advertised. So does everything else.Then Sam Park shows up to fix the porch, and with her comes a past neither of them ever named.Sam isn't looking for disruption. She has her work, her routines, and the particular peace of someone who stopped waiting a long time ago. But Marcy is harder to ignore than either of them expected. And Maxie, Marcy's opinionated dog, seems to have already made up his mind about all of it.What grew between them decades ago was never finished. What is growing now is even harder to walk away from.As the town's annual fair draws near and the life Marcy left behind begins calling her back, she has to answer a question she has spent nearly forty years avoiding: Is she now brave enough to stay?Still Here is a slow-burn seasoned sapphic and lesbian romance about second chances, chosen family, and the quiet courage it takes to come home to yourself. A later-in-life love story for readers who know that love after fifty isn't a consolation prize. It's the real thing.