All the Space Between

Life Hays has built her life with intention: a classroom at Edna Karr, a thesis at XULA, and ten siblings who keep her rooted on the West Bank of New Orleans. She knows who she is, what she wants, and how easily a distraction can knock everything off balance.

Shilo Sanders lives in motion- between training camps, expectations, and a last name that demands greatness. He's used to noise, attention, and being seen. What he isn't used to is a woman who looks past all of it and treats him like a regular man.

Their worlds collide in the humid heat of Miami, but what follows is quieter and harder: distance, family pressure, career uncertainty, and the unglamorous work of choosing each other again and again. Love doesn't happen in the big moments- it lives in the pauses, the compromises, and the spaces no one warns you about.

This is a story about family, ambition, and the kind of love that isn't loud- but is deliberate, messy, and real.