For ten years, Nora and Ezra kept a promise made on a mountain above Lake Lugano.
One night. One pact. No letters. No calls. They would return to the same terrace on the same date and see if what had begun between them could survive the silence. When they finally meet again, they discover that time has a way of both breaking and mending what matters most.
Nora, a clockmaker from Edinburgh, has spent years carefully maintaining the life she built after her father's death. Ezra, a war photographer, has spent those same years moving from one assignment to the next, never quite able to stay still. Both have tried to move on. Both have almost succeeded.
But some promises are not so easily broken.
Spanning a decade across Switzerland, Scotland, New York, and beyond, Where the Hands Meet is a story of missed connections, quiet courage, and the long, patient work of learning when to wait and when to finally start the clock.
A literary second-chance romance about timing, fate, and the choice to keep showing up.