Steve McCarthy – Author of Romantic Fiction

The Light Between Us

In summer 1985, fourteen-year-old Sean is new to North London, hiding out beneath a crooked tree with a sketchbook and a war on light he can’t quite win. Then he meets Linda Fletcher—sharp, funny, and brave enough to believe in what he’s trying to become. A friendship sparks into something almost-more… until life intervenes, and Sean is taken across the sea to Cyprus, where letters become lifelines and a second, peeling tree quietly joins their story.

Forty years later, Linda—older, steadier, carrying the shape of a life lived—finds a photography book in her local library. One image stops her cold: that same crooked tree, captured by a man who finally learned how to hold the light. On an impulse she can’t explain away, she sends an email… and in a heartbeat, the years begin to fold.

As messages turn into calls, and calls into days spent walking coastlines and chasing golden-hour skies, Sean and Linda are forced to ask the question they never had the chance to answer back then: what happens if you meet the right person—again—when you’re no longer the people you once were? Tender, hopeful, and threaded with music, memory and art, The Light Between Us is a story about the lives we choose, the love we postpone, and the quiet miracle of finding your way back—bent, perhaps, but not broken.

Reviews

“The Light Between Us by Steve McCarthy is a touching second-chance romance unlike any other.”

“Told in quirky quips and creative imagery, remarkably lighthearted while still delivering a story of substantial depth.”

“This book is like a ray of sunshine and a healing hug, a cozy blanket, and a good book with a side of comfort food, all wrapped up together to create an unforgettable gem.”

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