The Weight of October

Margot Vance left Wickford at nineteen and swore she'd never come back. She came back to bury her mother and sell the house, not to run into Sam Okafor at the funeral, fifty years old and still standing exactly where she left him. Twenty-two years ago he was her brother's best friend and the only person who ever really saw her. Twenty-two years ago she didn't say goodbye. Now the orchard boundary is in dispute, the October storms have started early, and the man she ran from is standing on her porch with a jug of cider and a list of things she owes him. The Weight of October is an age gap reunion romance about second chances that arrive two decades late and turn out to be exactly on time.