Ready or Not

She wasn’t ready to love again… but life had other plans.

Rylee Daniels has already lived through the kind of loss that changes everything.

After heartbreak reshaped her world, she made a decision. Love was no longer something she needed. Not when she had her children, her career, and the small sense of peace she fought hard to rebuild.

It was enough.

At least, that is what she told herself.

Because the truth is, Rylee was not ready. Not ready to let go of what she lost. Not ready to open herself up again. Not ready to risk breaking all over again.

So she stopped trying.

Until life shifts in a way she never expected.

A change in routine. A moment she did not plan for. A connection that quietly challenges everything she thought she had settled within herself.

Now Rylee is faced with something she cannot ignore.

The possibility that healing does not mean the end of love… but the beginning of it in a new way.

And the question she has been avoiding becomes impossible to outrun.

Is she truly not ready… or has she just been afraid to try?

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Series: Paralleled Love Series (Book 1)

Type: Contemporary Romance

Tropes: Grief to Love, Single Mother, Emotional Healing, “Not Ready for Love”