Hellos and Goodbyes

"She was gone in an instant-but she changed them all forever."

Bayley is the kind of woman you don't forget. At 23, she's all wildfire and whimsy-falling in and out of beds, hearts, and maybe even love. She flutters like a moth too close to the flame, until one man slows her down just enough to make her wonder if she's finally found something solid. Something permanent.

When two pink lines show up on a test, Bayley braces herself for a new kind of love-the kind that grows inside you, kicks, stretches your ribs, and remakes your world. Three days before her wedding, just as the confetti of her chaotic past begins to settle, tragedy strikes. The kind that tears through your bones, cracks the sky, and leaves silence where laughter used to live.

Before the Fall is Bayley's story-lust, longing, and the moment everything changed. It's where the heartbreak begins.

The series picks up in the aftermath, where grief becomes a character of its own. Her mother, Maggie, mourning in her own aching way, stumbles into a relationship with a younger man who reminds her that desire doesn't have an expiration date. Bayley's fiancé, wrecked and raw, eventually finds comfort in the arms of another, haunted still by what could've been. Friends scatter like dandelion seeds in the wind, some trying to forget, others clinging to memory.

But no one leaves unmarked.
This is a story of moving on and never moving on.
Of love lost, and lives that go on anyway.
Of the echoes one woman leaves behind.

This is for anyone who's ever tried to rebuild after the sky fell down.

Book number 2, in this series is "HELLOS AND GOODBYES: The Survivors", and adds many new characters and storylines. Even more exciting than book 1.