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Ten Thousand Light Years from Okay
Paperback
Publisher Price: $16.99
ISBN13: 9781662531262
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: Dec 1 2025
Pages: 348
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.95 Width: 5.44 Depth: 8.44
Language: English
A widowed and grieving young novelist believes her words create realities--both tragic and charmed--in a hopeful and surprising novel about family, newfound love, and moving on.
Four years after her husband Sam's tragic death mirrored a fatal plotline in her debut novel, Thea Packer hasn't written another word, afraid that what she writes could come true again. Resigned to raising her young daughter in her in-laws' guesthouse, Thea is on the verge of abandoning her literary career when inspiration strikes.
Her new book is a fairy-tale romance featuring a long-lost astronaut who miraculously returns home to his family, with the hero loosely drawn from Thea's memories of Sam. Thea considers the fantasy a harmless way to process her grief.
That is, until a charismatic man walks into her life--and he's an astronaut.
Thea can't believe it's happening again. Or is it? Her mother-in-law doesn't think so--she sees only a woman increasingly detached from reality. Now, as coincidences between Thea's writing and reality pile up, Thea must unravel the secrets of her past and tackle her grief head-on before she loses more than she ever imagined.
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