All These Years Later: Love After Loss in Maple Hill
Quinn Ward

Then Pete Walker shows up at our high school reunion.
We were close back in the day, the kind of friends who shared everything… except the parts of ourselves we were too scared to admit. I never had a crush on him back then, but now? He’s older, widowed, still sharp as hell—and something in me sparks to life the moment I see him again.
I don’t know what I’m doing. I’ve only just started living as an out gay man, and Pete’s still grieving the life he lost. But late-night talks are turning into something deeper, and when he takes my hand, I don’t want to let go.
Maybe it’s not too late to find something real.
Maybe this time, we get to be the ones who make it work.
All These Years Later is a standalone novella set in Maple Hill. It features a divorced dad finally living his truth, a widower who doesn't think he'll ever move on from his one-true-love, and a cast of characters who do nothing but support one another.