Love Forms

At fifty-eight, Dawn’s life feels like an unfinished story. Her marriage has unraveled, her two grown sons are busy living their own lives, and she’s left with a quiet house and too much time to think. But her mind doesn’t settle on the future—it circles back to a secret she’s carried for decades. At sixteen, Dawn became pregnant, and, as was common in Trinidad at the time, her parents sent her away to deliver the baby in silence and surrender her for adoption.

Now, more than forty years later, the ache of that loss has become impossible to ignore. Determined to find the daughter she never knew, Dawn embarks on a search that takes her from Trinidad to Venezuela to London, unearthing old memories and confronting the choices that shaped her life. Love Forms is a tender, resonant novel about the longing that lingers, the bonds that never break, and the way love—no matter how fractured—can still lead us home.