The Hope of Becoming: Aveline Book 4

Zoe and Lewis's first meeting was a speed-dating disaster.

Within minutes, they had managed to offend each other, and both left convinced they were opposites in every way.

Then they ended up living in the same small town.

For years, Lewis and Zoe avoided each other whenever possible, sidestepped their friends' attempts to set them up, and stubbornly held onto their assumptions about who the other person was.

Until the spring of 2020, and the emergence of the coronavirus.

When psychologist Zoe is asked to move onto Lewis's farm to help a refugee woman struggling with trauma during the uncertainty of the lockdowns, she can't refuse.

Instead, she finds herself eating dinner across from Lewis, talking, laughing, and sharing daily life with the one man she has avoided for years.

As the months pass, Zoe and Lewis learn about the dangers of assumptions, growing close, maybe too close. 

Then the pandemic ends, and life moves on.

Three years later, a crisis with Juliana brings Zoe back to the farm—and back to Lewis.

As long-buried feelings resurface, Zoe must confront a question she has spent years avoiding: what if the life she thought she wanted isn't the life she truly needs?