No Other Reason - Paperback

by El Hoffman (Author)

"No day will ever go exactly how you expected it to when you woke up in the morning."

Phoebe Johnson has her life in Charleston perfectly mapped out: work as a legal assistant, finish her degree, and become a lawyer. As an autistic woman navigating a neurotypical professional world, she relies on her plans. She doesn't have room for the unexpected.

Stephan Hale is a soft-spoken artist living a quiet life in West Texas. They haven't spoken since they were children-not since his family suddenly moved away without an explanation, leaving behind a silence that lasted years.

When a simple online reconnection turns into late-night conversations that feel far too familiar, the distance between South Carolina and Texas begins to shrink. But as Stephan prepares to visit, the memories of who they were collide with who they've become. The line between "just friends" and the love of a lifetime is blurring, and the high-angst tension of everything left unsaid is becoming impossible to ignore.

From the author of The Ever-Dark, No Other Reason is a no-spice, slow-burn contemporary romance novelette about timing, distance, and the courage it takes to finally name a feeling that never truly went away.