Base Building: Book One of The Miles Between Us

She came to Richmond to start over. She did not expect the hardest part of rebuilding her life to begin with a pair of running shoes.Three days after signing her divorce papers, Meg Callahan sits in a parking lot in Richmond, Virginia, trying to talk herself into walking across the asphalt. She's thirty-eight. She hasn't run since high school. She's wearing the wrong shoes. And she has just signed up for a marathon training program because she Googled hardest thing I can do after a glass of wine and a stack of moving boxes.Nate Aldridge coaches the beginners. He always picks the beginners - the people who don't know what they're doing yet, the ones most likely to surprise themselves. He's quiet, steady, and careful with the parts of himself he lets people see. He is also a former prosecutor who walked away from the career that nearly broke him, and he has built his new life around one rule: don't get involved with anyone he's coaching.Twenty-two weeks of training. Saturday long runs down Monument Avenue. Tuesday evenings through the Fan District. Shoe fittings, water stops, cool-downs, and the long stretches where the only honest thing to do is keep going.Somewhere between mile markers, the line between coaching and something more starts to blur - and Nate's one rule stops feeling like wisdom and starts feeling like a wall.Because Meg is not just training for 26.2 miles. She is learning what her life sounds like when it is finally hers.And Nate cannot stop noticing.Base Building is Book One of The Miles Between Us, a strangers-to-lovers contemporary romance with on-the-page heat, emotional depth, found family, and a slow burn that earns every single degree. Set against the real streets, trails, and marathon culture of Richmond, Virginia.Perfect for readers who love the emotional honesty of Abby Jimenez, the hopeful reinvention of Katherine Center, and the warm, grown-up slow burn of Kate Clayborn.

Pages: 164, Paperback, Independently published