The Number After You (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Copper Light Press, 2025
- Softcover
- New
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Paperback. Hope Hawthorne has spent three years talking to a phone that never answers. After her teenage daughter Lily is killed in a car accident, Hope keeps texting Lily's number-sending updates, memories, and the words she never got to say. It's the only way she knows how to breathe around the empty chair at the table and the silence in their house.What Hope doesn't know is that Lily's number has been reassigned to Sam, a quiet bookstore owner in La Crosse, Wisconsin. At first, Sam means to correct the mistake. But the raw, honest messages from an unknown mother hit a place in his own grief he's been trying to outrun. Instead of replying, he listens. He looks forward to her texts. And slowly, those one-way messages change the way he shows up in his own life.When a twist of fate finally puts Hope and Sam in the same small river town, their worlds begin to overlap-through books, shared loss, and the strange comfort of someone who understands without needing the whole story. As Hope navigates single motherhood, complicated friendships, and the weight of "moving on," she has to decide how much of her heart she's willing to risk on a future that doesn't include the one person she thought she'd never live without.Set against the backdrop of a cozy Midwestern bookstore and a tight-knit community, The Number After You is an emotional, hopeful women's fiction novel about grief, second chances, and the unexpected ways we find our people. A strong pick for book clubs and fans of heartfelt, character-driven stories, this novel offers rich discussion around motherhood, forgiveness, and what it means to keep living when someone you love is gone. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
Seller Inventory # 9798993645100
- Title
- The Number After You (Paperback)
- Author
- Rosanne Baker
- Publisher
- Copper Light Press
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798993645100
An Emotional Small-Town Women’s Fiction Novel About Healing After Heartbreak, New Beginnings, and Finding Love after Loss
Some messages aren't meant to be sent. This one was...it just wasn't meant for him.
After losing her daughter, Hope Hawthorne's world narrows to the quiet rituals of surviving. The empty chair. The garden no one helps her tend. The texts she still sends to Lily's phone, drifting into an endless sea of silence. They're not really messages. They're the shape of a mother-daughter love that has nowhere to go.
Then Sam Turner reads every word.
He runs a small bookstore in a tight-knit small-town that holds its grieving like a sheltered bay. He's a widower navigating his own later-in-life loss; someone who understands what it costs to keep showing up. When a sweet, aching text from an unknown number flickers onto his screen, he recognizes the love and loss in it instantly. His reply changes everything.
From that single fragile thread, a story of healing begins to unspool. Two strangers. An unlikely second connection. A women's fiction novel that doesn't flinch from grief but keeps reaching toward hope. For anyone who has ever felt lost in the aftermath, this uplifting small-town women's fiction offers no easy answers-just the quiet, stubborn truth that community finds you when you're ready, and that the heart can surprise you with its capacity for renewal.
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