The Last Window Between

Leuven, summer 2004. The building is his. The exams are behind him. For the first time in two lives, James Vandael is standing still, and it terrifies him more than any deadline did.

Then Marieke's future arrives with a date on it. London. A nine-month research post that will not wait for the two of them to figure out what they are. There is no villain and no betrayal, only two people choosing their own lives, and the quiet, unbearable arithmetic of distance.

James has foreknowledge. He always believes it will be enough. But a second life teaches its hardest lesson through the smallest error: the difference between what you remember and what actually happened. Book one asked whether you can go back. This one is about what going back breaks.

Book two of the trilogy, in active drafting. Set July 2004 through autumn 2005.