The Absent Husband (The Groveling Husbands #1)

For fifteen years, she held up the walls of his life.

He never noticed.

Until the morning she stopped.

For years, Lily was a good wife to Noah.

She raised their children, built their home, and stood quietly beside her husband while he built an empire.

Then, on her fortieth birthday—the same day as their fifteenth wedding anniversary—Noah forgot.

Again.

The next morning, Lily handed him divorce papers and walked away.

For the first time in his life, Noah George is forced to face an unbearable truth: he doesn’t know how to live without the woman he never thought he’d lose.

But a year apart has changed Lily. She’s rediscovering the dreams she buried, the woman she used to be, and the freedom that comes with finally choosing herself.

Then an old boyfriend returns to New York and starts working beside her.

Now the husband who never saw her is determined to win her back.

What follows is not a grand gesture. It’s letters written in the dark, therapy sessions that crack him open, and the painful work of becoming a man worth coming back to.

But Lily has spent a year remembering who she was before she became invisible. And she knows that love, on its own, is not enough.

He has to earn it.

The Absent Husband is a deeply emotional, high-angst contemporary romance about a woman who finally chose herself and the man who had to learn what that cost him before it was too late.

No cheating. Earned grovel. Letters. Steamy HEA.