Between Vines and Verity - A.B. Esson

Tomas Carrière says je t'aime the way other men say nothing at all, easily, certainly, without armour.

So when doubt arrives, it doesn't arrive loudly. It arrives in the details.

Selene Hannah is a neuropsychologist. She has spent her career learning how the mind edits what it doesn't want to see. She knows, better than anyone, that the smallest things are rarely small. She also knows that none of that prepared her for Tomas; or for the moment his certainty begins to look like something else entirely.

A missed call.

An unfamiliar voice.

And three words spoken in the wrong language.

Tomas Carrière owns a vineyard in the south of France and leaves every room the moment he's done. Composed, deliberate, desired, he has spent years being exactly what people expect him to be. Then he meets Selene, and finds himself doing something entirely out of character: staying.

But Selene has spent just as long expecting to be temporary. She reads people for a living, and she knows the difference between a man who wants her and a man who intends to keep her. What she doesn't know is how to trust that difference when someone from outside begins to whisper otherwise.

Between Vines and Verity is a literary romance about two people who have each, in their own way, learned not to want too much. About the particular courage it takes to believe in something before you have proof. About doubt, where it comes from, what it costs, and what remains when it finally lifts.