What We Couldn’t Keep
He chose the game. Twenty years later, the game is over.
After a professional crisis shakes her confidence, surgeon Claire Donovan retreats temporarily to the Carolina coast. There she meets Jack Sullivan, the widowed architect living next door.
Claire keeps asking herself when she’s going back to her old life.
Jack eventually forces her to consider a more frightening possibility: What if she doesn’t want to?
Cardiothoracic surgeon.
Architect and widowed father.
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.
Falling in love in their fifties makes them feel young. Their teenagers have opinions.