He Came Home Wearing Her Pain

She's the florist who catches an entire town at every graveside. She never noticed no one was left to catch her — until she found the motel receipt in her husband's cut, signed by the woman who threads her eyebrows. Liv Okafor holds up every mourner in the fog-bound harbor town of Colt Harbor and quietly kept an apartment over her flower shop through all eleven years of marriage — an exit she never admitted she was keeping. Then Bennett "Duke" Marsh confesses the affair. But the affair is the survivable wound. The real one is buried deeper: he chose the other woman on purpose, like choosing a tool, to cover the nights the Ridgeback MC's code of silence demanded — and let his wife carry a whole year of lies like the load-bearing wall she's always been. His grovel isn't flowers or begging. It's the truth told to his brother before he knows whether it wins Liv back, so it can't count as buying her. It's a machined cooler latch that finally holds. It's a patch stripped in a police lot, and a brother he lets go to prison rather than cover for one more day. And it's a hand-painted Queen of Hearts with Liv's own face on it — the card he won the summer they married and carried through every lie, keeping her heart where she couldn't reach it. Now he has to learn to hand it back, at her pace, and hope she can learn the hardest thing of all: to be caught. A quietly devastating, funeral-flower-and-fog MC romance about the woman who holds everyone, and the man who finally puts down the code to hold her.