Living with Grace (Grace Universe) Paperback – April 4, 2026

There is a scarf on Grace De Costa's closet door. It has been there for years. She never takes it down.Some things take time.Grace survived Paris. She came home. She thought that was the hard part.She was wrong.Living with Grace is the story of what happens after the becoming — when you have to actually show up for the life you fought for. The family restaurant. Her father's kitchen. A man named Marcus De Souza who told her he loved her and meant every single word. And a group of people — Jamaican, Portuguese, Irish, Thai, American, Southern, and one proud mutt — who turned her parents' backyard into the best table in South Florida without anyone planning it.The unusual suspects.Between a kitchen that doesn't sleep, a love she kept at arm's length until she couldn't anymore, and a spreadsheet telling stories nobody wanted to hear — Grace is learning the most complicated recipe of all.How to receive what you actually deserve.She thought resistance was strength. She's learning that grace — the quality, not just the name — is something practiced daily. In kitchens and gardens. In conversations that don't resolve neatly. In the quiet defiance of building something beautiful when the world tells you to shrink.Out of many, one people.Growth is not linear. Rebuilding is not failure. And love — real love — is not something you outrun.She pulled the roots. Now comes the bloom.One day she'll take down the scarf.She's getting there.By the Grace introduced her. Living with Grace is where she finds out who she really is. Trust in Grace — coming soon Read more