Some people watch from windows.
Some people finally go outside.
Stories about the terrifying, necessary distance between who we protect ourselves from being — and who we actually are.
The Window
Who gets to decide what love can handle?
Derek hasn't crossed his back yard in six weeks. He knows this with embarrassing precision. He's fifty-three, recently divorced, and the woman next door moves through her garden like she's never once worried about being watched.
Claire has two names. One made her wealthy. The other one is real. No one has ever been allowed to hold both at the same time.
Then she looks up.
The Window is a contemporary romance about two people who have perfected the art of keeping themselves safe — and the terrifying, ordinary moment when they stop.
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Literary-adjacent commercial fiction with a romance novel's emotional payoff. Think Nick Hornby meets Sally Rooney — interiority-driven stories about the gap between who we perform and who we are, and what it costs to close it.
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