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Chapter Overview
Chapter 1: AudiobookHub Recommendation
Chapter 2: A letter written to Chaos
Chapter 3: Pen caps, honesty, and a quiet question
Chapter 4: Cookies, a codename, and the cost of routine
Chapter 5: Diagnosis: the word that floods the room
Chapter 6: A soldier standing at the door
Chapter 7: Not a babysitter—something nearer
Chapter 8: The longest day spent in the waiting room
Chapter 9: Money, medicine, and the cost of hope
Chapter 10: One night on the cot, a lifetime in a promise
Chapter 11: The edge between offer and rescue
Chapter 12: Rights, wrongs, and a line on the birth certificate
Chapter 13: MIBG, radiation, and the finish line you can’t quite see
Chapter 14: Normal, in a jersey and out on the porch
Chapter 15: Investigation and the box beneath the bed
Chapter 16: Chaos, revealed—and unforgivable
Chapter 17: Aftermath, with the porch light on
Chapter 18: We’re not together—but you’re still their dad
Chapter 19: A yes that sounds like “later on”
Chapter 20: The cliff, the call, and a father’s final task
Chapter 21: Grief as the ocean, love as a life raft
Chapter 22: Love, afterward
Chapter 23: Double the awesome
Description
When Ella, a fiercely protective single mom, writes a letter to a soldier named Chaos, she expects nothing but a private place to vent while running her mountain B&B and raising twins, Maisie and Colt. What she can’t know is that Chaos—real name Beckett—reads her words on the night he turns twenty-eight and loses a teammate. Her voice anchors him. His replies make her feel seen. But what really changes everything is this: he shows up. In snowy Telluride, with a combat dog named Havoc and a promise to watch over the sister of his best friend, Ryan, who didn’t make it home.
Ella doesn’t have room for a romance. Maisie’s sudden cancer diagnosis consumes every ounce of strength, time, and money. Beckett can’t fix that—but he can carry whatever he’s allowed to touch. He fixes broken docks. He reads bedtime stories. He shows up at surgeries and on sidelines. He helps Colt build a tree house. He offers the one thing that lifts the weight off Ella’s lungs—security for Maisie’s treatment—even if he has to break rules, cross lines, and tell truths that could wreck them both.
This is a love story built in letters, forged in hospital hallways, and tested under the worst sky. It’s about found family, second chances, and the moments that bend a life forever. Bring tissues. And hope.
Who Should Listen
- Fans of military and small‑town contemporary romance with big emotion
- Listeners who love found‑family stories and steadfast, quietly heroic leads
- Anyone who wants a cathartic, hopeful tearjerker about parenting, illness, and second chances