Pause

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>He sees her before he knows her.</em></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>She feels seen before she's ready to be known.</em></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>In a candlelit corner of a Chicago hotel bar Clark becomes captivated by a woman he doesn't know a woman who appears each week always alone always after dinner. He doesn't speak to her. Not yet. But something about her quiet presence unsettles him challenges him stirs something dormant.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Simi isn't running but she's not standing still either. She's grieving healing trying not to come undone. The hotel is her refuge. The ritual is her escape. When Clark finally approaches her their connection sparks quickly but what begins as a slow burn becomes a complicated entanglement neither of them are prepared for.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Told in alternating points of view </span><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)><em>Pause</em></strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> is a magnetic intimate story about timing grief longing and emotional resurrection. For readers who believe love doesn't always arrive gently and sometimes the person who sees you most clearly is the one who meets you when you're falling apart.</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>For fans of</strong><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>: </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Normal People</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Sally Rooney </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Before We Were Strangers</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Renée Carlino and </span><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)>Seven Days in June</em><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(15 17 17 1)> by Tia Williams.</span></p><p></p>