The Distance Between Stops

THE DISTANCE BETWEEN STOPS<BR>She left a classroom because a child's question exposed her whole life. He's about to leave a boardroom because a driver's question exposed his.<BR>Six years ago, Amelia Harper was a beloved third-grade teacher - until her husband's affair surfaced in the worst room imaginable: her own classroom. She traded hallways for highways, built a life where nobody gets to tell her story, and never looked back.<BR>Then her company puts a private-equity executive in her passenger seat for a 48-hour "validation run."<BR>Dwight Norton is supposed to sign off on the routing algorithm his firm wants to force on every driver. Instead, he watches Amelia override it at a bridge the database swears is safe - and realizes the report on his laptop is a lie with his name reserved on it. Now he has to choose: certify the story his firm wants told, or blow up his own career in a boardroom where the man angling for his job fights dirty.<BR>And when that man leaks Amelia's past to the press, she has to choose too: disappear again - or stand in her own story, in print, for the first time.<BR>The Distance Between Stops is a slow-burn romance about two people who learned self-protection the hard way, and what it costs - mile by mile - to take the armor off.<BR>For readers who love: boardroom-stakes contemporary romance, blue-collar heroines who don't apologize, and love stories where the grand gesture is telling the truth.