You finished the book. But their story isn’t over.

Caleb Rourke spent most of his life telling himself that alone was a choice. That the work was too dangerous, the walls too necessary, the risk too high. Then Harper Wynn walked into a bakery and refused to let him believe any of it.

The epilogue gave you the future taking shape. The Bonus Epilogue gives you the moment Caleb stops surviving and starts building — a house with a yellow door, a question he’s been carrying for six weeks, and a woman who says yes before he finishes asking.

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