Carry Me Home: Some journeys simply bring you back to yourself
At twenty-nine, Tiera-Noelle James is done surviving quietly.
Once a rising corporate star with a passport full of stamps, a beautiful home, and a future mapped down to the quarter, she now finds herself sleeping in her sister's spare bedroom with a body still healing, a career reduced to a shadow of what it was, and a past she can barely bring herself to name. Somewhere along the way, one small compromise at a time, she disappeared inside a relationship that nearly destroyed her.
So she leaves.
With an overpacked suitcase, excellent shoes, questionable French, and a stubborn determination to feel like herself again, Tiera-Noelle escapes to France. The trip is impulsive, almost reckless-a response to everything she has been carrying in silence: the ex she fled, the violence she endured, the surgery, the shame, the fear, and the unnerving realization that she no longer recognizes the woman staring back at her. France is not a plan so much as an escape hatch.
Paris gives her late nights, good wine, beautiful rooms, art, temptation, laughter-and Xavier McDaniel.
An old almost-love with dangerous charm, an artist's eye, and the kind of presence that makes a woman remember every inch of herself, Xavier is both familiar and completely new. Their chemistry is immediate, sensual, and impossible to ignore, but what unsettles Tiera-Noelle most is not how badly she wants him. It is how safe she feels wanting him.
As Paris gives way to Nice, Monaco, and the Mediterranean coast, Tiera-Noelle begins shedding the version of herself built around fear and apology. She dances. She flirts. She sleeps. She tells the truth. She lets herself be seen. And with Xavier beside her-but never leading her-she begins to remember the woman she was before someone taught her to become smaller.
What begins as a getaway becomes a reckoning.
Tiera-Noelle eventually has to return home and face the life she left unfinished: her family, her health, her abandoned ambitions, the friendships she let disappear, and the man whose cruelty sent her running in the first place. One decision at a time, she rebuilds everything in her own name-her career, her home, her body, her voice, and her future.
Sexy, sharp, funny, and deeply emotional, Carry Me Home is a story about desire after devastation, freedom after control, and learning that the right kind of love does not rescue you, own you, or make you smaller.
It simply leaves the door open while you find your own way through.
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