💞 Velvet After Rain A novel of love, loss, and the courage to begin again. When Amara Blake returns to her hometown after a decade away, the last thing she expects is to find the boy she once loved — now a man who’s learned to hide his heart behind storms. Elias Hart, a reclusive artist haunted by betrayal, has turned his family’s vineyard into a sanctuary of silence… until Amara’s laughter begins to echo through it once more. Drawn together by memories and unspoken pain, they must face the truth of what tore them apart — and decide if love can bloom again after everything has withered. In a place where the rain never seems to end, Amara and Elias discover that healing doesn’t always come in sunshine… sometimes, it comes in velvet — soft, unexpected, and impossibly beautiful.