Carol van den Hende

Goodbye, Orchid: To Love Her, He Had To Leave Her Carol van den Hende

One of the most anticipated 2020 fall reads: Buzzfeed l Parade l Travel]Leisure. Winner: 2020 American Fiction Award l Pinnacle Achievement Award.

"Page-turner" "Breath of awe" "Tugs on your soul"




Can love blossom after life changes in an instant?

One July morning in Manhattan, handsome athlete and entrepreneur Phoenix Walker accompanies his love, half-Asian beauty Orchid, to the airport.

Neither believes today is goodbye.

But after she leaves, disaster strikes. Phoenix wakes in the hospital, broken, forever changed. He longs for Orchid but remembers the tragedy in her past that makes her panic over images of trauma.

Now, he's faced with the hardest decision of his life. Does he burden the woman whose traumatic childhood makes him feel protective of her? Or does true love mean leaving her without explaining why?




Rising from ashes is hard. Giving up the one you love is harder.




"A tale of sacrifice and rebirth; heroism is in the details." -SSGT Aaron Michael Grant, author of TAKING BAGHDAD: Victory in Iraq With the US Marines




If you like heart-warming stories of resilience and magnanimous heroes, then you'll love this award-winning tale that's inspired by combat-injured veterans. For fans of Me Before You and Fault in Our Stars, Goodbye, Orchid asks...




"What choice does a wounded hero have when loving his woman means breaking his own heart?"




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