Quinn Coolidge walked away from everything after the accident. Solitude in the Ozarks seemed like the answer—a way to stop moving, stop feeling, stop being visible. Then her best friend arrives with a proposal that pulls her back into motion. Africa. Whitewater rafting. One of the world’s most punishing river courses.
Aspen Kennedy has a different problem. She disappears into other people. Each relationship, she absorbs their interests, their preferences, their version of what matters. She becomes the perfect girlfriend by erasing herself incrementally. She’s spent years wondering why none of it sticks, why the connection never holds. She doesn’t recognize that she’s been loving people by abandoning her own shape.
The two of them arrive at Victoria Falls with the Zambezi River waiting—one of the most brutal stretches of water you can attempt. The landscape is stunning and indifferent. The rapids don’t care about their histories or their damage.
The river forces something neither of them expected. You can’t disappear into the water. You can’t hide from it or let someone else navigate it for you. Every decision matters. Every stroke of the paddle is yours alone. The churning current doesn’t allow for the luxury of becoming someone else’s version of a person.
Somewhere between the violence of the rapids and the immensity of the falls, they start finding something. Not answers—the river doesn’t provide those. But clarity. The kind that comes from being reduced to basics: survival, presence, the knowledge that you’re either paddling or drowning and there’s no middle ground.
Two lost people looking for themselves. Maybe finding each other becomes possible only after they stop looking for each other and start looking inward instead.
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| ISBN: 9781952270741 |
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| Genre: Action/Adventure; Romance |
| Subject(s): Action & Adventure; Genre Fiction; LGBTQ+ Books; LGBTQ+ Romance; Literature & Fiction; Romance; Women’s Adventure |
| Publication Date: 2022-11-15 |
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| Publisher: Sapphire Books Publishing |
| Language: English |
| Format: Paperback |
| Pages: 470 |
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| Book_ID: 106051 |