The Space Between

Lexie Walker's life did not go according to plan. After a broken engagement and a year of quiet damage, she is back home with a tiny apartment, a brand new internship, and a family that refuses to let her fall apart in silence.

What she does not expect is Reid Hayes.

Reid is the family friend who vanished from her orbit without explanation. Reid is the one everyone watches a little too closely. Reid is the one person who can look at her and make the past feel dangerously alive.

As Lexie rebuilds and Reid fights battles he never talks about, the small town keeps pulling them into the same rooms, the same moments, the same almosts. Between family dinners, late-night truths, and the kind of tension that does not fade with time, they start to wonder if what they have been avoiding is the only thing that could actually save them.

Because maybe the space between them was never distance.

Maybe it was the part of the story neither of them was brave enough to touch.