POETRY The Love Story Before Words
They say eyes are the window to the soul, but what if the soul can only be recognized through a certain person’s eyes?
Connie Flores, a family-law attorney, has spent years helping others navigate the unraveling of love. She knows what separation looks like, what betrayal sounds like, and how quickly forever can go from something poetic to simply paperwork. What she doesn’t know is what to do with a love that feels older than memory.
When she meets Caleb Augustin, a beloved soccer coach whose faith, intensity, humor, and love of music feel strangely familiar, their connection is immediate: magnetic, sensual, funny, and deeply intimate.
As friendship gives way to something neither of them can easily explain, the very things that draw them together begin colliding with grief, jealousy, fear, and the wounds they have each learned to carry differently. Loving each other will require more than passion. It will demand honesty, accountability, grace, and the courage to decide whether recognizing a love that feels meant for them is the same as being ready to receive it.
Some of life’s deepest poetry exists in the ways we love, long before words ever meet
the page.
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