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Even After Everything
Even After Everything is a heartfelt, second-chance contemporary romance told in dual timelines—Before and Now—about the kind of love that grows with you, breaks with you, and just might heal with you too.
Sophie Carver and Kai Parker grew up as childhood best friends, spending sun-soaked summers at a shared cabin, full of warm nostalgia and the laughter of their ridiculous, heartwarming siblings. In the Before timeline, their slow-burn romance simmers with unspoken feelings, quippy banter, and the vulnerable beauty of falling in love for the first time.
But in the Now, everything has changed.
A year after Sophie walked away, she returns to the lake—older, stronger, and desperate to prove she’s no longer the version of herself that left. The problem? Kai isn’t alone. He’s with someone else. Someone who stayed.
Trapped together for one final week in the place they fell in love, Sophie and Kai must confront what went wrong, what still lingers between them, and whether forever is something you can ever truly lose.
Perfect for fans of Emily Henry, Christina Lauren, and Carley Fortune, Even After Everything blends the nostalgic ache, emotional intimacy, and simmering romance of This Summer Will Be Different and Love and Other Words with the yearning tension, sharp wit, and quirky cast of Happy Place and Book Lovers. It’s a story of healing, timing, and the courage it takes to love again after loss.
Even After Everything is coming soon!
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Readers’ Favorite Quotes
“Even sunshine burns if you get too much.”
The line hit me like a wave. From a poem I knew—my grandma’s voice echoing in my head, soft and far away. Even the best things can destroy you. And that’s what I’d done. I’d destroyed us.
“One out of five stars. Highly unrecommend—disrecommend—my prefixes aren’t working… is there a word for that?”
“Don’t recommend?”
Well damn. That might’ve been the sexiest hand-holding and lip-balm-exchanging sesh of my life.
“I’m not brave—I’m just good at building walls.”
“I love you in a way that makes the word feel like an understatement—like it’s too small to hold everything I feel. I lake you. I fucking ocean you.”
About the Author
Kelly McBride was born and raised on the West Coast, where she still finds inspiration in everyday moments and quiet what-ifs. She is married, has two daughters, and a beloved German shepherd who never leaves her side.
A lifelong reader turned writer, Kelly crafts contemporary romances about love that changes us—stories full of friendship, second chances, and the courage to heal after heartbreak. Her signature dry wit and emotional honesty invite readers to laugh, cry, and believe in love, even after everything.
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