{"product_id":"after-bedtime-sloane-avery-9798224022090","title":"After Bedtime","description":"\u003cp\u003eGreg said she wasn't passionate. He said it to the woman he left her for.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLauren found the texts on his iPad. Every word. The clinical little autopsy of their marriage, written to make the other woman feel better about what she'd done.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo Lauren did what any reasonable woman would do.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe stopped being reasonable.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer best friend - the one her husband spent fifteen years calling a trainwreck, the one who stopped getting invited to things because Greg made it clear she wasn't welcome - shows up with a bottle of tequila and a black dress and a voice that says I knew you before he made you small. And for the first time in years, Lauren lets someone see her. Then she lets the rest of the world see her too.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat follows is not a breakdown. It's a remembering.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNight by night. Man by man. Room by room. Lauren peels back fifteen years of being dimmed - turned down so slowly she thought the darkness was just how things looked - and finds the woman who was underneath the whole time. Loud. Wanting. Unashamed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut mornings still come. There are lunches to pack and homework to check and a ten-year-old son who's gone quiet in ways that keep her up at night and an eight-year-old daughter who draws pictures of her family and gives her mother no mouth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe world will tell her to choose. The nights or the mornings. The mother or the woman. The packed lunches or the locked door.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe's both. She's always been both. The only person who needed her to be one thing at a time was the man who left.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd the man who finally deserves her? He's the one who sees both. Who makes her daughter laugh about fractions. Who shows up to her son's soccer game - not because she asked. Who stays awake after and wants to know what she's thinking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe's also the last person on earth her ex-husband would want in her bed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter Bedtime is sharp, tender, and unapologetically adult - a novel about divorce, desire, motherhood, friendship, and the lie that a woman has to be one thing at a time. This novel contains explicit sexual content.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor the woman reading this after everyone else is asleep - this one's yours.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sloane Avery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798224022090\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Sloane Avery\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/12\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 236\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.54d","brand":"Sloane Avery","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48437793784063,"sku":"9798224022090","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_350808ac-946f-4765-9298-5eb5a3f9fb81.jpg?v=1777164100","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-bedtime-sloane-avery-9798224022090","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}