The Distance to Daylight

A passenger train is trapped inside Greyhaven Tunnel. Getting everyone out should be a matter of procedure. Then the conditions begin to change.Everett Shaw and Maren Holt know that in an emergency, the safest decision is only as good as the information behind it.Inside Greyhaven Tunnel, that information is changing faster than the response can keep up.As teams work to bring the passengers to safety, every evacuation decision carries consequences. Routes that looked viable minutes earlier become uncertain. Assumptions have to be challenged. And professional trust becomes as important as the procedures designed to protect the people still underground.For Everett and Maren, the crisis also forces a different kind of reckoning.Working under pressure strips away the distance between them, leaving two experienced professionals to decide how much they can trust each other's judgement-and what to do about the connection neither can dismiss once the emergency is over.The Distance to Daylight is a grounded romantic suspense novel about crisis decisions, professional trust, and two capable people discovering what remains when the way forward is anything but certain.