The Space Between Almost

By Lira A. Vale

Nine years ago, Mara Ellis left everything-including the man she loved-without a word of explanation. Now the job of a lifetime is bringing her home.

Mara built her career on knowing exactly what a building deserves to become. What she didn't expect, walking into the crumbling Seabrook Hotel to lead its restoration, was to find her ex standing in the lobby-holding the deed.

Elias Bennett inherited more than a failing hotel when his grandmother passed. He inherited her stubborn belief that some things are worth saving, no matter what it costs. He never planned on adding Mara Ellis to that list again.

Thrown into forced proximity by a project neither of them can afford to walk away from, Mara and Elias rebuild a hotel room by room-and slowly, carefully, start rebuilding something between them, too. But the reason Mara left nine years ago is still standing in the way, and some truths don't stay buried just because a building's been repaired.

A second-chance romance about the difference between running from love and choosing it-and what it really means to come home.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HJWTYC56
• ISBN13: 9798174310612
• Release Date: September 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 180 Pages
• Weight: 0.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"