If women’s empowerment had a book track (like a soundtrack) in 2023 this text would be at the top of the soundtrack. This book was everything I didn’t know I needed. The FMC Soledad is betrayed by her husband Edward and has to start all over again financially, emotionally, and spiritually. She has to learn how trust the world again and most of all herself. She navigates her new world by focusing on love. The love she has for her children, the love she has for her late mother, her sisters, and her friends. The most difficult love for the FMC is the one she’s redeveloping for herself. Kennedy does an amazing job with making Soledad relatable and likable throughout the novel. You find yourself rooting for her and grateful that she has multiple soul mates throughout the text ( her friends, her budding love interest and the most important one herself). Judah is a loveable MMC who selflessly sacrifices for his twin sons and recognizes the love he has for Soledad is one that must grow and not be forced all while navigating being a parent of children with exceptionalities and making sacrifices. No one does hard topics like Kennedy. She wrote about autism, grief, divorce, and pain with such grace and care. This book was one of the best I read this year and I cannot wait for the third book in this series.