Alex and Astrid

Before the job. Before the years apart. Before either of them understood what they were giving up.

Alex is twenty-six, working flight crew at a small charter company outside Phoenix. Astrid is visiting for the summer, orbiting the same airports she always has, the ones where old money parks its planes. They meet the way things meet when they're supposed to — briefly, improbably, with no good reason to stop.

This is the novella that started everything. Read it first, or read it after. It holds up either way.