As If It Were Always You

A Novel of Love, Loss, and Becoming.

Rosefield, England. 1955.

Marjorie "March" Everly was never meant to want more. Not in a town like Rosefield, where girls are raised to sew, serve, and marry quietly. She spends her days threading silk through lace, her nights hiding poems beneath folded gowns-dreaming of a life shaped by ink, not expectation.

Lucas Alderiege was her safe place, her childhood companion, her dearest friend. But when he confesses he's loved her all along, March does what she was taught: she runs. Not because she doesn't care-but because she won't surrender her freedom, even for love.

When Lucas goes to war, and the engagement arranged by their families-to her cousin Gwen-becomes real, March begins to wonder:
What if the only person who truly saw her was the one she let go?

In a world that asks women to choose between their hearts and their voices, March must decide: will she let the life she almost wanted slip away-or fight for something greater?

For readers who believe women can be more, and that some loves live quietly, even when left unspoken.