In Short Measures & Strong Conspirators: Novellas

In his two novellas, In Small Measures and Strong Conspirators , Michael Ruhlman delves deeply into the nuanced complexity of romantic and sexual love—and the inevitable evolution of the heart over the span of years and decades.

Both novellas ask questions about the nature of love in terms of loyalty and fidelity—what are our obligations toward one’s spouse, one’s family, and one’s heart? In the first novella, “In Small Measures,” these questions are bound up in a writer’s work and a long-ago love. In the second, “Strong Conspirators,” an unforeseen, cataclysmic event calls for responses from a husband and wife that have never been rehearsed—because they have never been required nor even imagined.

Profoundly thought-provoking and satisfying, these novellas are beautifully written with plot twists from beginning to end that will captivate the reader.