Love Will Be Waiting At Home, (Paperback)

<p><strong>What happens when the life you built starts to feel like a performance?</strong></p><p>Maya is good at this. Good at the champagne on ice and the Edison bulbs strung just right. Good at the playlist that hits every right note and the dinner party that looks effortless because she spent a week making sure it would. Good at smiling at her husband across a crowded room and making it look like love.</p><p>She is less good at saying what she actually needs.</p><p>On New Year's Eve in Phoenix, Arizona, Maya opens her doors to the four women who know her best - and the night that was supposed to be a celebration slowly becomes something else entirely. A reckoning. A release. The kind of evening that starts with champagne and ends with the truth.</p><p>Simone arrives first, warm and punctual, carrying cupcakes and a secret she's not ready to say out loud. Keisha sweeps in late and unapologetic, armed with sharp wit and even sharper instincts about the things no one wants to admit. Diana floats through the door in designer silk, performing effortlessness the way only someone deeply exhausted can. And Marcus - Maya's husband - stays upstairs just a little too long.</p><p>Before midnight, everything these women have been holding onto will begin to loosen. Old loyalties will be tested. Old silences will finally break. And the love each of them has been waiting for - in their marriages, their friendships, and themselves - will demand to be seen.</p><p><em><strong>Love Will Be Waiting at Home</strong></em> is a rich, emotionally layered novel about four Black women navigating the space between the lives they have and the lives they deserve.</p><p>With the intimacy of <em>Waiting to Exhale</em>, the emotional precision of <em>It Ends with Us</em>, and the sharp ensemble energy of <em>Girlfriends</em> and <em>Insecure</em>, this debut novel announces a powerful new voice in contemporary African American women's fiction. A book about marriage and its silences. About female friendship as its own kind of love story. About the exhaustion of being the one who holds everything together - and what happens the night you finally set it down.</p><p><strong>This novel is for you if you love: </strong> Contemporary women's fiction featuring Black female protagonists - Emotional romance novels exploring marriage, loyalty, and self-discovery - African American literary fiction with sharp dialogue and real heart - Books about female friendship that don't flinch from the complicated parts - Multicultural romance set in the American Southwest - New Year's Eve novels with emotional depth and lasting impact</p><p>Fans of <strong>Terry McMillan, Tia Williams, Jasmine Guillory, Nicola Yoon, and Taylor Jenkins Reid</strong> will find something to love here.</p><p>Because at the center of this story is a question every woman has asked herself at least once: <em>What am I waiting for?</em></p><p>Maya has spent years making sure everyone else is okay - that the glasses are clean, the music is right, and no one notices the distance growing between her and the man she married. She is extraordinary at keeping things beautiful.</p><p>But tonight, something is going to shift. And when it does, she will have to decide what she actually wants love to look like. Not the performance of it. Th</p>

• Love Will Be Waiting At Home, (Paperback)
• Author: Allen Publishing House
• ISBN: 9798233860973
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2026-03-01
• Page Count: 254