The Season of Wanting

Callie Ames has spent decades being useful.

Reliable. Capable. Needed. The woman who remembers the appointments, manages the emotions, answers the texts, fixes the family problems, and quietly forgets to ask what she wants.

At forty-nine, divorced and standing in the strange quiet after her children have grown, Callie no longer knows who she is when no one needs something from her first.

Then Poppy drags her into a class at Chit Happens, Spain, Maine's warm, slightly meddlesome movement studio, and Callie meets Elena Ruiz.

Elena is grounded, patient, and impossible to ignore. As a movement therapist and yoga teacher, she does not offer easy answers or polished self-help performance. She simply notices where Callie has been holding herself too tightly-and invites her to begin again.

Through movement classes, KC nights, stubborn friends, uncomfortable honesty, and one very inconvenient attraction, Callie begins to understand that wanting is not selfish. It is not embarrassing. It is not too late.

And with Elena beside her, Callie may finally enter a season of desire, courage, and self-definition that belongs entirely to her.

The Season of Wanting is a warm, tender later-in-life sapphic romance about empty nest transition, self-reclamation, chosen community, and the quiet bravery of wanting more.