After Evan: A BWWW Interracial Sapphic Romance (The Oakwood ‘After’ Trilogy Book 1)

Grief brought them together. Desire will change everything.
When Mona Callaghan buries her thirty-one-year-old son, she never expects to find solace in the arms of his childhood best friend—or to discover a part of herself she’d buried decades ago.
Michaela Palmer returns to Oakwood for Evan’s funeral, carrying guilt and unspoken truths. What begins as shared mourning becomes something neither woman can deny: a connection that awakens desires Mona thought she’d left behind when she married, and feelings Michaela knows she shouldn’t have for a woman twenty years her senior—let alone her best friend’s mother.
As they navigate grief, family expectations, and the weight of their age difference, Mona and Michaela must decide: is this love born from loss, or is it the life they were always meant to find?
After Evan is a steamy, emotional age-gap romance about rediscovering yourself, claiming forbidden desire, and learning that it’s never too late to live your truth.
Content notes: Explicit scenes, grief themes, age-gap romance (20 years), taboo relationship dynamics