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Ships That Cross in the Night
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781961841956
Publisher: Shady Oak Press
Published: May 29 2026
Pages: 366
Weight: 1.08
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Meadow Kingsley has spent her life designing houses and writing love stories-rooms she can control, endings she can revise, relationships she can make whole on the page. But after thirty years of marriage, her husband's near-death confession leaves her standing inside a life she no longer recognizes: he believes his true soulmate was a wild, doomed woman he loved before her.
Wounded and searching for answers of her own, Meadow travels north to Half-Moon Lake Lodge, a resort in Minnesota cabin country, hoping to confront the biological father who has spent decades turning absence into silence. Instead, she finds Shane Sawyer-the boy from high school German class, and every missed chance she never quite forgot.
Now, in their late fifties, Meadow and Shane begin to understand that their lives have been crossing for forty years-not loudly, not easily, but with the quiet insistence of fate. As one storm-lit weekend unfolds beside Half-Moon Lake, Meadow must decide what it means to be seen, what it means to stay, and whether some soulmates are not meant to end up together-but to change the course of each other's lives simply by crossing.
Haunting, tender, and deeply atmospheric, Ships That Cross in the Night is a literary love story about missed connections, late-life longing, marriage, memory, biological family, and the fragile mercy of not yet.
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