The Week Between Saturdays

Jo has a plan for her Saturday run: eight miles, no surprises. Then Paul Becker pulls up with a sore calf before the finish, and she finds herself walking back beside a man she's barely spoken to in almost a year of shared runs.

What begins as a walk beside each other on the Milwaukee lakefront turns into coffee, late dinners, dry laughter-and the pleasure of finding a reason to see each other again. The attraction is real. So is the growing wish to be part of the days between Saturdays.

Jo has a demanding job, a condo of her own, and family who count on her. Paul has shifts at the water treatment plant, a duplex to manage, and people he loves. Neither needs rescuing. And neither wants a romance that means giving up the life they've already built.

But wanting someone is different from making room for them. As Jo and Paul grow closer, the question becomes not just whether they belong together on Saturday mornings, but how they can choose one another in the middle of an ordinary week-without ceasing to be themselves.

Warm, dryly funny, and genuinely romantic, The Week Between Saturdays is a contemporary love story about two grown-ups discovering that love can make a good life larger, not smaller.