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Julianna Jeffries believes in love.

As a Detroit wedding planner, she has built a reputation for orchestrating unforgettable wedding days—managing bridal parties, venues, timelines, and the invisible details that make a celebration look effortless. Her company slogan says it best: Happily Ever After… Begins With Us. She believes it—and she delivers it.

Raised in a close-knit family where loyalty is everything, Julianna has always known the weight and comfort of belonging to a family that shows up. But when love, pride, and long-held secrets begin to test her judgment, the life she thought she was building begins to shift. The men in her life challenge her heart. Her sisters challenge her perspective. And the choices she makes—both spoken and unspoken—carry consequences that reach far beyond romance.

Affairs of the Heart is the first novel in the Sisters Trilogy and the beginning of the Affairs of the Heart Universe—a sweeping family saga about love, loyalty, and the quiet, complicated work of becoming whole.

Gabriella Wesley is the woman everyone leans on—devoted wife, proud mother, and the steady center of a family bound by love, memory, and shared history. With her daughter PJ’s Napa Valley wedding on the horizon and the long-awaited opening of her wellness center, life appears to be unfolding exactly as she planned.

But life rarely follows the plan. When the unthinkable reshapes everything Gabriella thought she knew, she is forced to find strength she never imagined she would need—for her daughter, for her sisters, and for herself. As grief, love, and responsibility collide, Gabriella must navigate what it means to hold others together while learning how to stand in her own truth.

Surrounded by the women who have walked beside her for decades, Gabriella will discover that being unbreakable isn’t about never falling—it’s about what endures when everything else shifts.