Base Building: Book One of The Miles Between Us
Three days after signing her divorce papers, Meg Callahan sits in a parking lot in Richmond, Virginia, trying to talk herself into walking across the asphalt. She's thirty-eight. She hasn't run since high school. She's wearing the wrong shoes. And she just signed up for a marathon training program because she Googled hardest thing I can do after a glass of wine and a stack of moving boxes.
Nate Aldridge coaches the beginners. He always picks the beginners - the people who don't know what they're doing yet, the ones most likely to surprise themselves. He's quiet, steady, the kind of man who says something once and means it. He's also a former prosecutor who walked away from the career that nearly broke him, and he's built his new life around a single rule: don't get involved with anyone you're coaching.
Twenty-two weeks of training. Saturday long runs down Monument Avenue. Tuesday evenings through the Fan District. They talk during shoe fittings and cool-downs and the long stretches where the only honest thing to do is keep going. Somewhere between mile markers, the line between coaching and something else starts to blur - and Nate's one rule stops feeling like wisdom and starts feeling like a wall.
Because Meg isn't just training for 26.2 miles. She's learning what her life sounds like when it's finally hers. And Nate can't stop noticing.
Base Building is a strangers-to-lovers contemporary romance with on-the-page heat and a slow burn that earns every single degree. Set against the real streets, trails, and marathon culture of Richmond, Virginia.
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