A Hundred Autumns
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Every autumn, Mira returns to a quiet Vermont town with nothing but her sketchbook and a heart full of memories. She sits on the same bench beneath a maple tree, sketching strangers, chasing fragments of a love she lost five years ago - a love that once made the world feel alive.
Julian is a world-weary travel photographer sent to capture the warmth of fall foliage. He's tired of pretending he still finds beauty in anything. But the moment his lens captures Mira - calm, radiant, unknowable - he's drawn into her orbit.
She sketches to remember.
He photographs to forget.
And somewhere in between, they find each other.
Told through alternating first-person perspectives, A Hundred Autumns is a tender, slow-burn love story about healing, fleeting moments, and the kind of connection that feels written in the leaves. But Mira is keeping a heartbreaking secret - and when the season ends, so might their time together.
She teaches him how to love again.
He shows her how to live, even with borrowed time.
And in the final breath of fall, two souls will prove that even the briefest love can last forever.
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