Still Here: Rhys Universe Book One

She spent nineteen years running her family like the weather - invisible, essential, never thanked. Then her daughter left for college, the house went quiet, and a stranger in a parking lot said three words that undid her: I see you. Sarah Bell is forty-seven, and the only thing she can remember wanting for herself is a red dress she bought before she became someone's mother. When she finds it again in a forgotten closet, it starts a year that will cost her - her old rhythms, her husband's comfort, the version of herself everyone else depended on - and give her back the hand that once knew how to paint. A mysterious man named Rhys appears at the edges of her days, seen by no one else, asking nothing, teaching her only how to look. Whether he is real, remembered, or something her grief invented, Sarah will have to decide - and so will you. STILL HERE is a quiet, aching novel about what it costs to become yourself again after decades of disappearing into everyone else's life - and about the people who have to learn to love the person who comes back. Perfect for readers of women's fiction who want a story to sit with long after the last page, and for book clubs looking for a quiet story with a lot to argue about. Book One of the Rhys Universe.