THE LONG WAY BACK

A Marriage in Crisis Romance

By: Grovel Lady

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Her water broke on a Sunday in August. Her husband had two choices and a truck. He chose the truck, and then he chose to keep driving.

Maren Calloway is nine days overdue when her water breaks on a quiet Sunday morning. Her husband has one job — get her to the hospital. Instead, with his kids from his first marriage in the back seat and his sister's voice in his ear calling him whipped, Owen makes a decision he'll spend the next year paying for. He keeps driving. He delivers the kids seven hours east, over a pass with no signal, and by the time he turns the truck around, his daughter has already been born.

Maren named her alone. Iris — after the wildflower on the fence line that comes up no matter what.

There's no screaming match when he gets home. There's something worse: a wife who has quietly stopped expecting him to show up. Owen built a company by engineering his way out of every problem, and now he's learning the one thing he can't engineer is the empty chair beside a hospital bed — or the way a woman stops reaching for the man who wasn't there.

He'll do anything to come back. The trouble is that anything isn't enough, and the people who put him in that truck aren't done yet.

A slow-burn, angst-soaked marriage-in-crisis grovel about the difference between being sorry and becoming someone worth forgiving.