Love is more than brilliant sex.

It's been a year since my whirlwind affair with Thomas Quidell. Good jobs and wedding plans now swirl around us—as do a mortgage and the stress of Tom's blossoming art career.

But when a job vanishes and a parent becomes ill, the trauma becomes too much. We're pulled in opposite directions. Now separated by distance and desperation, we must come to terms with what it means to be apart—and how to work as a team to stay together.

Sacrifice may be our only route forward. Will our love survive?

Join Sammie and Tom in this new story readers compare to Colleen Hoover's CONFESS and Jessica Park's 180 SECONDS.