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Worth the Work: A Big Beautiful Woman Romance About Healing, Self-Worth, and the Courage to Stay: A slow-burn contemporary plus-size love story about
Paperback
Series: The Love We Deserve - A Plus-Size Romance
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Oct 16 2025
Pages: 246
Weight: 0.54
Height: 0.52 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Hannah Brooks was supposed to have it all figured out. As a confident lifestyle writer with viral essays about self-love, she's made a career out of telling women how to thrive. But when her carefully built life implodes in a single headline, she escapes to her family's lakeside cabin-armed with nothing but her laptop, her cat, and a silent promise to rest before everything in her life collapses for good.
Adam Cole was once the face of a national fitness brand-until the cameras caught his downfall. Now, burned by scandal and stripped of fame, he hides out in the same sleepy lake town, trying to rebuild his life without losing his soul. When Hannah and Adam collide-literally-on the same stretch of dock, the spark between them is instant and inconvenient.
Their connection grows in stolen mornings, shared workouts, and confessions neither expected to voice aloud. But for every moment of warmth, there's the shadow of old wounds-his fear of failing again, her habit of carrying everyone else's expectations. Together, they'll have to learn the hardest truth of all: healing isn't transformation. It's permission.
Told with humor, heart, and an aching tenderness, Worth the Work is a body-positive slow-burn romance that celebrates the messy, beautiful process of becoming whole. Set against the backdrop of quiet lakeside mornings and hard-won trust, it's a love story where strength isn't measured by perfection-but by the courage to stay, to listen, and to keep showing up for yourself and the one who finally sees you.
Perfect for readers who crave emotional depth, witty banter, and authentic intimacy, Worth the Work reminds us that love doesn't fix you-it meets you exactly as you are, and that's where everything begins.
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