The Quiet Pull of Him

After her divorce, forty-six-year-old Linda leaves Germany behind and starts over in a small house in Nyack, a quiet suburb north of New York City. Curvy, guarded, and still carrying the bruises of a life that did not turn out the way she once imagined, she tries to build something simple and safe near her best friend Christin, who lives in Manhattan and works in advertising.

Linda does not expect Tumblr to become anything more than a distraction. She certainly does not expect him.

At first, she has no interest in answering his messages. He is too calm, too controlled, too sure of himself. Yet there is something in the way he writes, something old-fashioned and dangerously steady, that unsettles her. He does not chase. He does not flatter cheaply. He waits.

And slowly, against her better judgment, Nicole finds herself drawn into the quiet gravity of a man whose dominance is not loud, but absolute.