A Better Kind of Forever

The best love story of her life begins the night her marriage ends.

When Eleanor Mercer’s husband leaves her for another woman on their thirty-second anniversary, the fifty-eight-year-old architect refuses to beg for a life he has already betrayed. By morning, she is driving toward the Northern California coast—and the most important commission of her career.

Halcyon House is a crumbling estate with a buried history, a threatened public path, and an owner who can afford anything except certainty.

Widowed billionaire Alexander Vale is accustomed to solving every problem before it can hurt the people he loves.

Eleanor is the first person in years to tell him that money cannot decide what a place—or a woman—should become.

As professional respect becomes an irresistible romance, Eleanor’s faithless ex and his ambitious new lover tie their future to a rival development.

Leaked photographs, forged records, public scandal, and dangerous sabotage threaten Eleanor’s career, Alexander’s trust, and the new life they are building.

Eleanor has already escaped one love that required her to disappear. She will not accept another man’s rescue in place of respect. To earn a future with her, Alexander must relinquish control. To claim it, Eleanor must believe forever can be built differently the second time.