What if your second chance wasn't with someone new-but with the person you already married?
Victor and Gabriella Scott have loved each other for most of their lives. Childhood sweethearts, married for seventeen years, and parents to two daughters, they built a life together through Vic's twenty-year career in Special Forces. But after years of deployments, sacrifice, and simply surviving, the connection that once seemed unbreakable has nearly disappeared.
Retirement was supposed to bring Vic home for good. Instead, he struggles to find his place outside the military and within the family that learned to carry on without him. Gabbi is exhausted from years of holding everything together and wondering when-or if-her husband will truly come home to her.
Six months ago, she gave them a deadline: find their way back to each other or end their marriage.
Now, with only three weeks remaining, neither knows if love is enough.
With the help of lifelong friends, Vic and Gabbi begin confronting the distance between them. Rebuilding their marriage means facing years of resentment, rediscovering trust and intimacy, and deciding whether the life they created is still the life they want.
But healing is rarely a straight line, and an unexpected tragedy within their veteran community forces them to confront just how fragile life-and second chances-can be.
Keep Fighting is a contemporary romance about marriage, military retirement, friendship, family, grief, and two people learning how to choose each other again.
This novel contains mature themes, strong language, and explicit sexual content. It also addresses PTSD, trauma, grief, and suicide.
Ellett, T. L.: - "An Army veteran turned teacher turned author, she rediscovered her love for stories during the COVID pandemic, devouring every ounce of love, angst, and spice she could get her hands on. What started as an escape quickly reignited the childhood dream she'd tucked away - and she hasn't stopped writing since. If she was going to chase this dream, she figured she might as well write the kind of stories she loves most: raw, emotional, and deeply human.Armed with two master's degrees in education and a bachelor's in communication, T.L. brings a unique blend of discipline, empathy, and lived experience to her work. Her characters carry real scars, real hope, and the messy, beautiful resilience she's witnessed throughout her own life.Born in Virginia and raised in Massachusetts, she has lived all over the United States, collecting the places, people, and emotional textures that now shape her fictional worlds. She currently lives in Virginia with her amazingly supportive wife, while her three adult sons and daughter live nearby. Her home is also joyfully overrun by a lively fur family of eight cats and two dogs - all of whom firmly believe they are her true coworkers.T.L. Ellett writes stories for readers who crave honesty, healing, and the kind of love that feels earned. Her work champions found family, emotional grit, and the belief that love - and life - are always worth fighting for."
