Still Hungry

Twenty-five years after they let each other go without a fight, a small-town literature professor and a New York literary agent meet again in the cottage one of them rents and the other has come to value. It is too late. It is not too late.

Jude Calloway teaches Frost and Dickinson at the college in Alder Cove. He is forty-eight. He is divorced. He has a daughter who worries about him and a life that is smaller than the one he imagined at twenty — quieter, kinder, and haunted by a woman he let go of a quarter century ago because neither of them was ready, and neither of them fought.

Vivian Tran is a New York literary agent who builds careers out of other people's words. She is sharp, successful, and privately exhausted by a life that looks exactly like what she wanted and feels nothing like it. She has not been to Alder Cove in twenty-five years. She has not seen Jude Calloway since the morning they said goodbye in a way that was too careful and too kind and not at all what either of them meant.

A literary estate in transition. A cottage on the lake that Jude has been renting for eleven years and that is, this November, finally going up for sale. The particular cruelty of autumn in Vermont — where the light is the specific gold that makes everything you have lost feel present. Twenty-five years of separate lives. Twenty-five years of almost-messages and nearly-phone-calls and the quiet, persistent ache of the one who got away.

"The distance between us was never geographic. It was the twenty-five years of courage neither of us had. We have it now. The question is whether it matters."

The Distance Between Us is Book 4 in The Linden Street Letters. Dual first-person POV. Medium heat. Guaranteed HEA.

Second chance. First loves reunited after 25 years. Lake house in autumn. The one who got away. It is not too late.

For fans of later-in-life reunion romance, twenty-five-years-later slow burn, and the belief that some love stories are worth waiting twenty-five years to finish.

Free with this complete series.