Powerless

Sloan is about to get married, although this engagement has long ceased to be her choice. Shortly before the wedding, she learns of her fiancé's infidelity and decides to run away. She is helped by Jasper Jerve — her childhood best friend, with whom she shares the Wishing Well ranch, years of separation, and unspoken feelings. Together they set off on a journey, and then find themselves at another ranch where they can wait out the crisis and figure out what to do next. The story revolves around forced intimacy, old wounds, and the attempt to regain one's footing. There is family pressure, complicated relationships with self-esteem, experienced losses, and the slow rapprochement of people who have hidden behind friendship for too long. The novel combines a love story, the theme of emotional healing, and a plot about adult choices that cannot be shifted onto others.