MY CHÉRIE: My Chérie

Leiana learned early that the world is not a safe place. Growing up in the shadow of a compound where silence meant survival and love was something other people were given, she became very good at one thing: being invisible.

She did not expect anyone to notice.

But grace rarely announces itself with trumpets. Sometimes it comes quietly — in the form of a sixteen-year-old boy standing in the early morning light, tossing pebbles at a window, tilting his head toward the open road as if to say: the morning is worth seeing. And so, quietly, are you.

My Chérie is the story of Leiana and Immanuel — of six years, three goodbyes, one terrible night, and the slow, unglamorous, breathtaking work of being found. It is a story about the kind of love that does not shout. The kind that stays. The kind that shows up at eleven o'clock at night because it saw a light that should not be on.

At its heart, it is a story about a Shepherd who never stops looking for the one who is lost — and the people He sends, in His great mercy, to carry His lambs home.

This is Book One of the My Chérie series. Book Two is forthcoming.

Disclaimer AI : The author acknowledges the use of AI tool Claude (Anthropic) for editing, formatting, designing the book layout and cover. Some parts of the book were rewritten with assistance of Claude AI for smooth pacing of narrative flow, keeping the author’s voice in mind. ChaptGPT AI was used to create the images inserted in this book. However, the final draft was human reviewed, and the author retains full creative responsibility for it.