Angol
She had a system. He sat in her seat.
Wren Calloway has rules. Same coffee, same route to campus, same seat in every class. She's been this way for as long as she can remember - structured, steady, in control. It's not a personality trait. It's a survival strategy. And it works, as long as nothing disrupts it.
Then a transfer student she's never seen before takes her chair on the first day of a seminar she fought to get into.
It shouldn't matter. It's an unassigned seat in a twelve-person class. But Wren's careful world shifts a fraction of an inch, and a fraction is all it takes.
Theo Ashby is starting over. New school, new major, new life - built from the wreckage of the one he was supposed to want. He's quiet, observant, and sees things most people walk right past. Including the girl who looked at him on the first day like he'd disturbed something important.
When their professor pairs them for the semester, they have no choice but to talk. Once a week. About the readings. About identity, memory, and the stories people tell themselves to survive.
They talk about the readings.
And then they don't.
All the Small Distances is a slow-burn college romance about two people who have built their lives around not needing anyone - and the semester that makes that impossible. It's about silence, and what lives inside it. About the walls we build and the people who make us want to take them down.
No spice. All heart. Every page earned.
