The Way we Wind

A Novel

Pub Date: June 1, 2023

Twins Bren and Clark have been holding each other up since their mother passed away. It hasn’t been easy. But Bren is running the family greenhouse and Clark has a good job at the local library. Life is quiet, just as Bren likes it. But Clark feels like he’s stagnating.

Bren isn’t looking for love when a greenhouse customer dumps water all over her. But Elodie’s cute and bouncy and, it turns out, a folklorist at the local college and has a special interest in plants and their stories. It seems like a perfect match.

Clark might have a tiny crush on a patron at the library, but he’s never going to say anything. But when Jasper, that very patron, asks for Clark’s assistance on a research project, Clark can’t say no. To Jasper or the project; Jasper’s researching local “ghost trails”. And Clark is a bit of a believer.

But trauma and grief are slippery things, and getting through it isn’t simple or easy. Maybe love needs to find a way to help them both heal.

Content Warnings

• Discussions of death, grief, and spiritual matters

  • This includes the death of parents

• Characters with anxiety, depression, and PTSD

• Discussions of the impact of social media and viral videos on personal lives, mainly detrimental

• Discussions of drinking to excess and sobriety

Queer Representation

• Bren (she/her) is demisexual, with leanings toward femme people

• Clark (he/him) is pansexual

• Elodie (she/they) is lesbian

• Jasper (he/him) is pansexual, with leanings toward masculine people