The Window
Some people watch from windows. Some people finally go outside.
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 ordinary, terrifying moment when they stop.
“She built a fortress. He found a clean signal.”
Available Fall 2026
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Cole Vesper
Cole Vesper writes literary-adjacent commercial fiction with a romance novel's emotional payoff — interiority-driven stories about the gap between who we perform and who we are, and what it costs to close it. No grand gestures. No misunderstandings resolved by a single speech. Just two adults in the same room, trying to be brave enough to say the actual thing. The Window is the first novel.