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What We Can Promise
Graham and Claire know how to make each other laugh—and what not to say. As daily messages turn intimate, a long-planned Christmas trip brings their friendship to a crossroads. He is learning to speak honestly; she is deciding what she can trust. Your choices shape what he says, how he shows up, and what they are willing to promise.Open this volumeI Love You
Jacob searches six years of messages for the first time Grace said ‘I love you’ without meaning it. Their engagement has ended, but the question follows him into an ordinary life he must learn to inhabit again. Your choices shape what he says, whom he lets close, and what he carries forward.Open this volumeA Year at Most
Erin Shea left Butte, Montana with a graduating class of twenty-eight behind her and no intention of coming back. She met Ben on a train out of Wrigley Field the night it snowed in April, and for three years Chicago belonged to them. Then her mother went out for the mail. Her father asked. She told her husband it would be a year. Eighteen years later, in a town built on copper that ran out, the man she brought here has become someone she no longer recognises — and she has begun to believe she knows why.Open this volumeThe Last Car Home
Nora Ellis has built a workable life from deadlines, motherhood, and carefully managed expectations. After a disastrous blind date and a late ride on a historic San Francisco streetcar, she meets a guarded operator whose sharp humor keeps colliding with her need for honesty. Across work, friendship, parenting, grief, and modern dating, every choice asks what she is willing to call love—and what she refuses to lose to keep it.Open this volumeThe Last Car Home
Nora Ellis has built a workable life from deadlines, motherhood, and carefully managed expectations. After a disastrous blind date and a late ride on a historic San Francisco streetcar, she meets a guarded operator whose sharp humor keeps colliding with her need for honesty. Across work, friendship, parenting, grief, and modern dating, every choice asks what she is willing to call love—and what she refuses to lose to keep it.Open this volumeFive Houses Away
Cass Price and Elliott Caldwell have spent a lifetime crossing the five houses between them. As Cass prepares to leave Grapevine for music school in New York, Elliott hides a terminal illness and pours everything he cannot say into an animated film made for her. At the final doorway, the reader decides whether love means telling the truth—or letting her go.Open this volume
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