Unexpected Things

For two years Diana Freemon has been living in the silent aftermath of a love that was gone before it could truly begin. The empty seat beside her at the arena the unspoken future—all are echoes of Nate the man who was her everything. Grief has become her closest companion a shadow she can’t outrun and she is convinced her heart will never heal. But then a breakdown on a lonely road brings an unexpected stranger into her life. Kent Smith’s quiet kindness offers a flicker of light in her persistent darkness. As a fragile friendship begins to mend her fractured world Diana finds herself caught between a cherished memory and the promise of a new dawn. Can she honor the love she lost while still making room for a future she never imagined?