The One Beside Me: The Real Thing. The One Beside Me, #2

She lost the fantasy. She didn't know she was about to find something better. Claire comes into this book hollowed out. The man she spent a year building in her head turned out to be nothing. Owen - quiet, steady, imperfect Owen - has been real the entire time. But Owen isn't sure he can trust himself either. He wonders if what he feels is just loneliness in disguise. He stayed in a marriage two years past honest.
When he says the right thing, part of him doesn't know if that's a gift - or a habit. They're both wrong about themselves. They choose each other anyway. Adult contemporary romance. Explicit intimacy - consent-forward, emotionally grounded. Dual POV. Series conclusion.? Picks up directly after Book 1: The Illusion