When the Timing Was Right

<p><strong>At sixty-three Margaret Hughes has made peace with solitude. Five years after her divorce from Richard she's built a careful life of independence-her garden apartment her books her quiet routines. Love she's convinced is for younger people with more time to recover from heartbreak.</strong></p><p>At sixty-four David Montgomery paints alone in his studio carrying a secret he's kept for forty-three years: he never stopped loving Margaret Hughes his college best friend who married someone else before he found the courage to confess his feelings.</p><p><em>When they reunite at a retirement party the connection is immediate and undeniable.</em> But loving at their age means confronting fears their younger selves never imagined:</p><p>• Bodies that have changed and hearts that have been wounded • Adult children who worry their parents are making mistakes<br> • The mathematics of limited time versus unlimited love • The vulnerability of starting over when over was supposed to mean settled</p><p>Margaret has spent decades being practical about love. David has spent decades being patient. Now they must learn to be <em>brave</em>-brave enough to blend carefully constructed independent lives brave enough to trust that desire doesn't diminish with age brave enough to believe they deserve extraordinary happiness rather than mere companionship.</p><p><em>From first tentative coffee dates to meeting each other's families from navigating the delicate intimacy of aging bodies to planning a future with limited time Margaret and David discover that mature love isn't a consolation prize-it's the main event.</em></p><p>Their journey takes them from a duck pond in November to gardens in spring from separate apartments to a shared home from careful friendship to passionate partnership. This is love informed by loss deepened by waiting and made precious by the understanding that some chances come only once in a lifetime.</p><p><em>When the Timing Was Right</em> is a celebration of silver romance that proves the heart doesn't stop wanting simply because the calendar pages turn. A tender emotionally rich story about the courage required for second chances and the extraordinary grace of finding your person when you least expect it-and most need it.</p>