Come Morning: A Cedar Vale Novel

By Naomi Hartwell

The bravest thing is not surviving the night. It's daring to believe in the morning.

Nadia Okafor has kept the intensive care unit at Cedar Vale alive for four years, one impossible shift at a time. She buried her husband young and has run on that grief ever since, keeping everyone upright and letting no one hold her.

Then Dr. Marcus Hale arrives to build the hospital's new trauma program, and he refuses to run it without her. Loud where she is silent, certain where she is careful, Marcus is everything Nadia distrusts: a big-city surgeon who mistakes speed for care. Except he stays forty minutes past every shift for families that are not his job. Except he notices, before anyone has in years, that she never once lets someone bring her a glass of water.

As a young wife keeps a desperate vigil in their ICU, and a long season tests everything they are building, Nadia feels the one thing she swore she would never risk again beginning to rise in her chest. Hope. And hoping, she knows, is how you lose everything twice.

But some nights do not last forever. And some mornings are worth the dark.

Come Morning is the second novel in the Cedar Vale series: emotionally rich, closed-door contemporary romance with real medical stakes and quiet, hard-won faith, for readers who believe the ones who carry everyone else deserve to be carried too.

Happily ever after guaranteed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HGGKP3P7
• ISBN13: 9798194393336
• Release Date: August 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"