Certified to Handle His Silence

Sha'Nelle Harper said yes to Couture and a future that looked like it should fit, yet her heart never left Renza Mensah in Trill-Land.

Now that Renza knows she is engaged, he refuses to chase her, and the man who once crossed cities and oceans for her meets her calls from different numbers and her messages with a quiet that leaves her coming undone.

He still loves her, but he will not yank her out of an engagement she has not truly reckoned with, and the distance he keeps sends her into a spiral that begins to reach everyone around them.

With Couture still tied to the life waiting for her and Renza sliding farther out of reach, Sha'Nelle sets out across Trill-Land to prove she wants him and that she is finally choosing him.

Renza is not as unmoved as he wants people to think, and he has to decide whether pride and pain can be set aside before the damage outweighs the love that kept bringing them back.