Sometimes survival means leaving.Sometimes leaving only proves how much still follows you.In East of Home, the series moves deeper into the emotional aftermath of toxic love. New places, new people, and new routines cannot erase the damage left behind by manipulation, betrayal, and fear. The past has a way of showing up in the way people trust, love, protect, and defend themselves.This third book in The Predatory Spouse Series explores life after toxic love — the confusion, the emotional scars, the desire to start over, and the painful truth that home is not always a place of safety.Dark, intimate, and suspenseful, East of Home is for readers who want relationship fiction with consequence, emotional depth, and characters who are still fighting for a life that feels like their own.