He Blurred the Line, Now He'll Cross It Back

There was never a moment Lark Boon could point to. No lipstick, no hotel, no name in a phone she wasn't supposed to see. Just a path worn into the grass between her house and the widow's — deeper every month — and a husband whose phone lit up at the same hour every night, and who took it out to the porch to talk low in the dark. When Cain's best friend Dooley died, Cain did what a good man does: he looked after Dooley's widow. The whole club called it loyalty. Lark called it loyalty too — right up until she understood that the morning coffee talk, the first call of the day, the last laugh of the night, the entire inside of her husband's life had quietly moved across that path and stopped coming home to her. He never touched Colette. He gave her something worse. He gave her the marriage. And when Lark finally said it out loud, she became the jealous wife who couldn't let a grieving widow have a friend. Everyone was so sure she was wrong that she started to wonder if she was — because how do you prove a thing that has no moment, only a groove in the grass that everybody can see and nobody will name? She isn't wrong. And she is done being told she is. Cain has to learn the thing his whole decent, conflict-avoiding life taught him to miss: that faithfulness isn't about where you put your body. It's about where you put your attention, your first call, your ordinary Tuesday. If he wants Lark back — really back — he'll have to do the one thing he's spent two years avoiding: close the line for good. End the friendship. Say the hard, disloyal-looking no to his dead brother's widow and the family that expects him to keep saying yes. And then hand Lark a choice he has no right to control. An emotional, found-family motorcycle club second-chance romance about the affair that leaves no evidence, the difference between a body and a marriage, and a woman who trusts her own eyes at last. A non-physical emotional betrayal, a humanized 'other woman' who was grieving too, a hard-won grovel that costs the hero his standing, and a wife who closes the line on her own terms. Full-length novel with a guaranteed happily-ever-after.