Catherine

Boarding House Belles

Two years ago, Catherine ran for her life. She's been hiding ever since — but not just from the people who want her dead.
Whisked away in secret alongside three trusted friends, Catherine has built a quiet, guarded existence far from the shadows of her past. Safe on the outside. Hollow within. Bitterness is her closest companion, and she wears her misery like armor — pushing people away, refusing joy, and clinging to the memory of a man she believes she'll never see again.
Humbled and worn down by her own walls, Catherine steps reluctantly toward hope and finds a good job, a lighter heart, and a future that finally looks like something worth having.
Pouring that newfound light into the lives of her fellow boardinghouse roommates, she almost lets herself believe the worst is behind her. Until…
A face from her darkest days resurfaces with a single, chilling purpose — exact revenge by killing her. The women she's grown to love close ranks around her, fierce and unshakeable. But the threat that breaks through is the one none of them saw coming.
Not able to move or speak, lying on the floor dying, Catherine sees him — the man she never stopped loving, the one lost to her forever. Even now, she's sure her mind is playing its cruelest trick yet.
Remorse and desperation fill his entire being as he lifts her off the floor and runs for help…
His heart ripping from his chest as he begs her not to die.
He never stopped searching. He finally found her. But has he found her too late?