Years of heartache, healing, and learning to trust have led Becca and Craig to this moment. They're ready to create the future they've always imagined for themselves. A future that starts with a simple wedding. Authentic vows. A road ahead stretching out like an open country highway. Forever isn't built in one day, or one moment. It's spent drinking coffee while the sun comes up together. Talking until your eyes won't stay open on your front porch swing. Filling a family home with laughter. And every day afterward, when you choose each other again. Through blending families, chasing dreams long since forgotten, and beginning the journey of opening Becca's bakery, they will learn that marriage isn't the end goal-it's just the start of their adventure. Together. Made of moments, they'll learn healing doesn't mean forgetting the pieces of your past. It gives you the strength to find your future. Heartfelt romance, touching family, second chances, small-town vibes, and magic moments fill Choosing Forever. It's the emotional conclusion to Kate Brown's What Was Mistaken for Love trilogy. Because sometimes the best love story doesn't revolve around finding your soulmate... It's about choosing them over and over, for the rest of your life.

Becca thought she knew what it was like to be loved unconditionally after a lifetime of earning that luxury. She was wrong. Navigating life as a single mother after a draining marriage ruled by emotional manipulation and quiet intimidation, Becca approaches everything with care. She kisses her children goodbye without getting too close. She responds to her boss without smiling too wide. Most importantly, she doesn't let herself feel before everyone else walks away. Until Craig walks back in. When the hometown brown-haired boy who got away proves that not everyone will need transparency from her like her ex did. Not everyone will punish her when she doesn't speak. Not everyone will make her feel inadequate when she loves him. For the first time in her life, Becca stops fighting love. She lets herself fall into it. But Craig's return doesn't mean her past suddenly disappears. And just because Becca knows there's nowhere to go from here doesn't mean she won't run anyway. As Craig works his way back into her life and her children embrace the kind man intent on making them his, Becca must face the one thing she ran from years ago and got used to keeping at arm's length: It's not easy learning how to simply be when you're used to having to prove yourself. Learn to Love You Continues Mistaken for Love's powerful story of learning to trust again.

Becca thought she knew love the day she met Lee. He was dependable. Safe. Sure, in every way that mattered to her. Attention turned to affection. Affection turned to obsession. And obsession slowly became the life she constructed around him and only him. Until she had a family of her own and found herself smiling less and less. Living smaller and smaller until her whole existence quieted down to accommodate the person sitting across from her at the dinner table every night. *** It didn't happen overnight. Love never does. There were no real breaking points. Just subtle ones. Words that turned into silences. Silences that turned into apologies. Apologies that turned into more silence. And that silence-it stretched on to become everything she used to be. She stayed, though. Because the alternative seemed impossible. Leaving felt like failure. It wasn't until tragedy struck that she was forced to take a step back. Life-real life-happened to her while she was losing herself with Lee. And when she finally resurfaced, everything she tried to hold on to was gone. After Lee, Becca decides she will never lose herself again. Healing isn't that easy, though. After finding herself falling into the arms of another man who reflected everything she thought she ran from, she learns a devastating truth: sometimes the hardest part of a relationship isn't watching someone walk away-it's realizing what you were willing to compromise just to keep them. The boy she let get away comes back into the picture. Craig was never a part of her life with Lee. He was a part of life before Lee. And he brought with him things Becca hadn't felt in so long... love that made her feel big. Love that didn't require her to fade into the background. Love that didn't feel like she was simply surviving. The problem was that Becca had gone too far down a path of heartbreak to trust that feeling again. An emotionally complex story of mothers and loss and realizing what you are really worth.

The spirit haunting Ashmoor House is gone…or so Rowan thought. After saving the ghost of Ashmoor House one year ago, Rowan thought she could move forward. She renovated her ancestral home back to its former glory and started to piece together the shards of her broken heart. That was until the mysterious Daniel walked into her life wearing an impossible pendant and dreaming impossible dreams. As forgotten memories surface and dark secrets unravel, it becomes clear that the past is not done with them yet. Underneath Blackwater Bay hides a secret society of Lost Keepers, ancient relics, and another Heartstone—a powerful source of magic that maintains the fragile balance between worlds. When the truth behind their abilities is revealed, Rowan and Daniel learn their deadly foe was just the first of many. Now two Heartstones are weakening, a mythical Sleeping King awakens from his centuries-long slumber, and someone is killing Keepers so they can't remember their pasts. If Rowan and Daniel want to save the ones they love and honor the memories of those who cannot be protected, they must learn to survive the impossible. Solve the mysteries of the first Keepers…and risk forgetting their reason to fight at all. Because some ghosts aren’t lost to save the living... They watch over them. And some legends have only begun their story.

Seventeen-year-old Rowan Vale never dreamed that one house could change her life. . Moving to Ashmoor House after her grandmother's death wasn't Rowan's idea of a pleasant summer. Built nearly two hundred years ago, the Victorian mansion sits on a desolate cliff, where thundering waves attempt to drown out every secret the house keeps. Rumored to be haunted, locals tell legends about strange lights, ghostly music, and a boy who's been waiting for someone...for almost a hundred years. . Nothing could have prepared Rowan for the night she meets Elias Thorne. . Elias isn't dangerous. He can't hurt her. He's waiting. . Rowan and Elias begin to spend every night talking through things kept hidden during the daylight hours. With each sleepy conversation, it becomes harder for Rowan to run from the rapid pounding of his heart that echoes her own. She soon discovers secret rooms, diary entries, and sins that tie her soul to the old house before she was even born. Someone wanted Elias dead, and the secrets were buried with him. But Ashmoor House isn't just haunted. It remembers. The deeper secrets Rowan uncovers, the more darkness erupts from within the house's walls. An evil quietly waits for the chance to reclaim the solitude it has been gifted for decades. To save Elias, Rowan will have to break a century-old curse and uncover what horrors her family has hidden away. Otherwise, she'll lose the boy who understands her forever. Perfect for fans of atmospheric mysteries, slow-burn romance, haunted mansions, and beautiful supernatural secrets, The Silence Between Us is the terrifying and romantic first installment in THE ASHMOOR CHRONICLES.