Given Our History

A Novel

By: Kristyn J. Miller

Narrated by: Erin Bennett

Length: 10 hrs and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

In this sparkling romance, two professors with a complicated past get a second chance to prove history won't repeat itself.

Assistant professor Clara Fernsby is nothing if not driven. She’s wanted to teach history since she was fourteen, and she hasn’t let anything stand in her way―not even the love of her life. And it all paid off in the end, because she landed a well-paid position at a private liberal arts college fresh out of grad school, and this year, she’s finally up for tenure.

When Theodore Harrison is brought on for the fall semester as a visiting scholar, it’s an unexpected blast from Clara’s past. She hasn’t spoken to Teddy since rejecting him over a phone call ten years ago. Now that he’s here, she’s reminded of their time together at every turn: autumns spent at a sleepaway camp in the Blue Ridge Mountains, trading battered history books and burned CDs with the quiet, dark-haired boy she once fell in love with.

That boy might’ve been her best friend, but the man teaching HIST-322 is a total stranger―or so she thinks. As they spend evenings working on a shared project and brainstorming over drinks at a college bar, Clara realizes she’s at risk of falling all over again. Given their history, she knows there’s every chance he’s not interested. But history’s all down to interpretation, and this time around, she’s got no intentions of repeating it.

©2024 Kristyn J. Miller (P)2024 Insatiable Press

Critic reviews

"Second chance romance... at its most heartwarming." -- Trish Doller, bestselling author of Float Plan

"A masterclass in nostalgia and second chances." -- Emily Wibberley and Austin Siegmund-Broka, authors of The Roughest Draft

“This book was designed in a lab for me - or, more accurately, a musty History department in an ivy-covered building: competent grown-up protagonists, second-chance-friends-to-lovers story, tweed and elbow patches atmosphere. Miller has created a world I’ve never read before populated with fully-realized, completely original characters to root for. A beyond satisfying read. My heart is happy. A+. With honors. Summa cum Laude.” -- Julia Whelan, internationally bestselling author of My Oxford Year and Thank You for Listening