Catherine has learned how to survive the lower room. Now she has to learn how to live outside it.
A message from her father tears open the past she thought she could manage from a distance. Daniel Morgan may finally be speaking the language of regret, but Cat knows better than to confuse a public confession with repair. If she faces him, it will be on her terms.
As Cat builds a life with work, recovery, and people who refuse to let her disappear, Thomas must learn that love is not shelter from every storm. It is the freedom to choose each other again.