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Clara Whitmore has learned that people do not always stay.
So she keeps her world small: university, work, family, books, and the photographs she takes with an old analog camera.
Ethan Vale is impossible to miss.
Confident, admired, and always surrounded by people, he has perfected the version of himself everyone expects to see. But behind it, he keeps parts of himself carefully hidden.
They shouldn't have anything in common.
Then a chance encounter on the subway puts them in each other's path.
And when a university project forces them to work together, avoiding each other becomes a lot harder.
She thinks she already knows exactly who he is.
He can't understand why she seems determined not to like him.
But somewhere between stolen glances, late-night conversations, photography, crowded parties, and moments that last a little too long, first impressions begin to fall apart.
He notices more than she thinks.
She sees more than he wants her to.
And neither of them is prepared for what happens when the person they were determined to keep at a distance becomes the one they can't stop looking for.
A Few Steps Away is a slow-burn college romance about first impressions, hidden passions, trust, found family, and the terrifying possibility of letting someone see who you really are.
Slow burn • Strangers to lovers • Forced proximity • Dual POV • College romance • Photography • Found family • Unresolved tension
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