The Long Way Back
A second life in Leuven, built on discipline and foreknowledge, and the slow discovery that neither buys the one thing he came back for.
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He got a second chance.
Becoming someone else
was the hard part.
Slow-burning fiction for grown-ups: second chances, the people we never quite got over, and what it actually costs to go back. The intimacy on the page is explicit, and it is there for a reason. In these books, desire is how the characters tell each other the truth.
The trilogy · Book One
The Long Way Back
James Vandael dies at seventy-nine: decorated, disciplined, and alone. He wakes in his twenty-year-old body in Leuven in 2003, carrying everything he learned and nothing he healed. He rebuilds a life with medicine, money, martial arts, and relentless order. The question was never whether he could do it better. It was whether doing everything better could teach a man how to be loved.
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Books
A trilogy in progress, and the first novella of the Available Light Cycle. Every book asks the same quiet question: what does it cost to become the person you should have been?
The Last Window Between
Leuven, 2004. Marieke leaves for London. James holds a future he can't quite reach, and learns that knowing what's coming is not the same as being ready for it.
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Available Light
A wedding photographer who can read any room and cannot stand being seen in one, and the woman in the third row who notices. Three days in Prague, three photographs. Romance first; the heat arrives late and earns its place.
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