His wife found his girlfriend first.
Cal Reed comes home expecting Del's arms around him. Instead, he finds her devastated by the truth he should have told her himself: the wife he never mentioned has already been to their house-and she expects him home tomorrow.
Cal asks Del for one chance to explain. From the beginning.
Years earlier, a handcrafted walnut table brought Cal into Vivienne Laurent's glittering world. Her attention became patronage. Patronage became dependence. By the time Cal understood that the studio bearing his name, the marriage he never proposed, and even his sobriety had become tools of control, walking away threatened to cost him everything.
Del is willing to hear the truth. But she refuses to become Cal's reason to stay sober, another piece in Vivienne's game, or the woman who loses herself trying to save him.
To build a future with Del, Cal must finally stop surviving on half-truths-and decide what he is willing to lose to stand on solid ground.
Emotional, intimate, and ultimately hopeful, All the Pieces We Hold is Book 2 in the Of Silence & Survival series. Del and Cal's story begins in All the Quiet Things and is best read in order.