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Mazikeen Joy Phillips has built a life around keeping everything together, even as her own body slowly betrays her. Between demanding treatments, an uncertain future, and the quiet fear that love will always require more than she has left to give, she has learned how to survive without expecting anyone to stay.

Falcon Josiah St. Claire knows what it means to love someone through illness. Watching his mother battle a chronic disease taught him that strength is not always loud and devotion is not always easy. So, when he meets Mazikeen, he does not see a woman who needs saving. He sees someone worth standing beside.

What begins as an unexpected connection becomes a love tested by hospital rooms, unanswered prayers, impossible decisions, and the kind of hope that can feel cruel when life keeps changing the rules. As Falcon offers Mazikeen a place to rest, she must decide whether home is somewhere she can return to or something she is finally brave enough to build.