The Years Between Us

By C.T. Haukedahl

Twenty-eight years separate them. Falling in love brings them together. Building a life will ask more of them both.

At sixty-four, Vivienne Mercer has made a comfortable life in Little Flower, Georgia. Openly lesbian for twenty years, she has close friends, familiar routines, and a place at Harbor Books, the town's struggling independent bookstore. What she hasn't allowed herself in years is the hope of another great love.

Then Grace Westbrook walks through the door.

Thirty-six, confident, and hired to organize a benefit for the bookstore, Grace is drawn to Vivienne's dry wit and guarded tenderness. Their attraction grows through late evenings, quiet confessions, and small gestures that begin to feel like promises. Soon, Vivienne's orderly life has room for a woman she never expected-and wants more than she knows how to admit.

But when jealousy and the fear of judgment lead Vivienne to deny their relationship in public, Grace must decide whether the love they share can become a life she is willing to live.

Set in a Georgia lakeside town, The Years Between Us is an emotionally intimate lesbian age-gap romance about desire, belonging, and the courage to love openly. With a community of women at its heart and a happy ending, it celebrates the possibility of finding lasting love at any age.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HM91K58B
• ISBN13: 9798160321523
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 230 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"