In The Meantime

Your twenties are supposed to be the beginning.

The real job. The first apartment. The better car. The relationship that finally goes somewhere. The version of yourself who has enough money, enough confidence, and enough sense to know exactly what comes next.

At least, that's what everyone makes it sound like.

At twenty-two, Zora Whitfield is finishing school, working at a Dallas hospital, saving to move out of her parents' house, and trying not to think too hard about the fact that her car is dying faster than her savings account is growing. She's got good friends, a plan, and absolutely no interest in another half-relationship with a man who doesn't know what he wants.

Then she meets Wesley Keene in her best friend's kitchen.

But theirs isn't the only life changing.

Across Dallas, eight friends are building careers, paying rent, swiping through dating apps, falling in and out of love, navigating sex and situationships, questioning relationships that look perfect from the outside, saving for homes, planning marriages, changing their minds, calling their parents for help, and slowly becoming people they haven't met yet.

Everyone is waiting for something.

Graduation.
The promotion.
The move.
The money.
The right person.
The moment life finally feels like it has begun.

Except life doesn't wait.

It happens in the meantime.