The Life After
She keeps asking when she’s going back to her old life. He asks the harder question.
Rachel and Tom unexpectedly fall passionately in love — while both are still raising children at home.
Their romance has to coexist with teenagers, custody schedules, ex-spouses, school activities, family loyalties, and the complicated business of blending two established families. Some of the kids are protective. Some worry that accepting a new partner betrays their other parent. Others see the relationship before Rachel and Tom are willing to admit it themselves.
Two attractive, successful adults discover that falling in love in their fifties can make them feel surprisingly young — while requiring them to behave like responsible adults.
Can they create something new together without erasing the families and identities they already have?
Divorced mother and entrepreneur.
Divorced father and business owner.
She keeps asking when she’s going back to her old life. He asks the harder question.
He chose the game. Twenty years later, the game is over.
He bought the vineyard on impulse. She’s spent her life tending it.
The hard part isn’t that he hates her for leaving. He doesn’t.