Synopsis
Dr. Nora Collins has spent her career teaching the dying how to want to live. At thirty-eight, burned out and quietly unraveling, she takes on one last impossible case: James Carrow, an attorney who calmly insists he has wanted to die for centuries. His intake form lists a birth year of 1687. His handwriting belongs to a man who learned to write before keyboards existed. And the photograph her assistant pulls from the Boston Public Library archives shows the same unchanged face — dated decades ago. As Nora digs, the boundaries between clinician and patient blur into something dangerous. Someone has leaked her most private grief into print. Someone is watching. And the man across from her in that quiet Back Bay office knows things about loss, longing, and time that no living person should. Drawn into a slow-burning collision of intellect, desire, and dread, Nora must decide how far she'll follow a man who cannot die — and what she's willing to risk feeling again. A haunting, cerebral romance for readers who crave forbidden tension and an immortal hero who unsettles as much as he seduces.
