Sometimes the love that changes your life,

is the one you never saw coming.

Charlotte is forty, chronically self-deprecating, and convinced

her life has quietly peaked without telling her. Great love,

she's decided, is for other people.

Preferably younger, glowier people with better skin.

Then she meets Tom.

Tom is younger. The kind of younger that makes Charlotte briefly

consider lying about her age... and possibly a facelift.

He's charming, magnetic, and looks at her as if she's the most

fascinating woman in the room, which is, frankly, suspicious.

He listens to her rambling. He texts back. Immediately.

And he kisses her like he's been waiting his whole life to find her.

Falling for Tom feels like winning the lottery:

thrilling, surreal... and statistically unlikely to end well.

Then, suddenly, everything changes.

Forced to confront the truth about him, and about herself,

Charlotte must face the emotional patterns that brought her here.

And she finds herself holding in her hands everything

she's ever wanted... and everything she's just lost.

Warm, witty, and deeply human, this is a story

about love, loss, and the courage it takes to carry on.