chellecrespo
Charlotte Strickland knows exactly what to do when someone else is falling apart.
She's a physician. A mother. A wife. The woman everyone calls when something goes wrong.
Then an MRI finds something she can't fix.
At forty-five, Charlotte is forced into a world of biopsies, treatment plans, hospital gowns, and people suddenly asking her what she needs. As cancer begins taking pieces of the life she's carefully built, the people around her start unraveling too.
Her daughter, Alex, is beginning a career as a therapist while quietly losing the ability to hold herself together.
Cooper, Charlotte's steady husband, is determined to prove that she can lean on him.
And Hank Maddox, the man who loved Charlotte for fourteen years, helped raise her daughter, and never quite stopped belonging to her family, is still standing close enough to complicate everything.
But this isn't a story about which man Charlotte chooses.
It's about what happens when the woman everyone depends on can no longer depend on being strong.
The Space Between is an adult contemporary family drama about marriage, motherhood, old love, caregiving, identity, and the terrifying distance between who people need us to be and who we actually are.