Hawkins The Long Way Home: A Hawkins Novel, (Paperback)

<p>Penny Pierce has always belonged to Hawkins.</p><p>She walks the same loop through the Commons every morning. She funds the arts quietly, supports the town without recognition, and moves through life with deliberate calm. Penny isn't lonely-she simply isn't looking.</p><p>Alice Ashford isn't looking either.</p><p>A visiting research fellow at the Braintrust, Alice lives by deadlines, footnotes, and a stubborn wind-up watch that always runs three minutes late. She's precise, incisive, and temporary-exactly the kind of person Penny Pierce should notice and then walk past.</p><p>Instead, Penny stops.</p><p>What begins as a shared bench and a disrupted routine becomes something neither woman planned for: attention. Choice. The slow realization that love doesn't always arrive with chaos-sometimes it waits patiently until you're ready to see it.</p><p>As Hawkins quietly watches, routines bend, timing shifts, and Penny discovers that choosing love doesn't mean abandoning who she's been-it means expanding it.</p><p><b>The Long Way Home</b> is a lyrical, emotionally grounded sapphic romance about readiness, interruption, and the quiet courage it takes to stop walking past what's been waiting for you all along.</p><p>A tender, slow-burn love story featuring: </p><ul><li>Two accomplished women choosing love without crisis</li><li>Later-in-life romance</li><li>Found rhythm instead of forced conflict</li><li>A town that notices everything</li><li>One very opinionated dachshund in a sweater</li></ul><p>Perfect for readers who love heartfelt lesbian romance, small-town intimacy, and stories where love is chosen-not rushed.</p>

• Hawkins The Long Way Home: A Hawkins Novel, (Paperback)
• Author: Sydney Skyler
• ISBN: 9798241501783
• Format: Paperback
• Publication Date: 2025-12-27
• Page Count: 158