Ella Hawthorne has lost everyone she’s ever loved. Still reeling from her fiancé’s tragic death, She relocates to Charleston, SC for a new job, desperate for a fresh start. As she settles into this new life, she forms friendships and an unexpected romance that impacts her in ways she never dared even possible.

However, a history of hurt has a way of bubbling to the surface and littering a clean slate with shadows of the past. Can Ella reconcile the tragedy she’s come from to the life that she longs for?

In the follow up to Desi Stowe’s debut novel DONE, Stowe explores the resilience of the human spirit to seek hope, even when it seems to exist just out of reach. SHADOWS is a stand alone novel that occurs within the world of the Charleston Harbor Series.

Trigger warnings for the topics of panic attacks, grief, violent weather, and briefly implied suicidal ideation.