The Two-Year Vow

She came back to New York to divorce the man she'd never met. She didn't plan on falling in love with him first. Two years ago, twenty-two-year-old Kate Abrams made the only deal available to her: marry a stranger named John Michael Townsend, wait out a two-year arrangement, collect an inheritance, and disappear. No faces. No names. No entanglements. She walked out of the courthouse a married woman who had never once looked her husband in the eye — and spent the next two years building a life that was finally, unassailably hers. Now she's back to end it. What she doesn't expect: a job at Townsend Fashion House. A brilliant, guarded CEO who says her name like he recognizes the shape of it. A glass-walled office where she sits twelve feet away from him every day and watches him leave coffee on her desk without ceremony and spend twelve minutes correcting a manufacturer's mistake without making anyone feel the debt of it. A man who is, according to everyone who works there, complicated-married. The man she is falling for anyway. Jack Townsend has spent two years trying to reach a wife who won't return his calls and six weeks trying not to fall for the woman at his desk. He knows both of these things. He cannot seem to resolve either of them. What he doesn't know — what neither of them knows — is that the wife he's trying to reach and the woman he's trying not to fall for are the same person. They are twelve feet apart, every day. They have been married for two years. They have never been in the same room. Or so they think. The Two-Year Vow is a slow-burn contemporary romance about two people who got the order wrong — who vowed before they knew, married before they looked, and spent two years in the same city before the truth arrived and rearranged everything. It is a story about the difference between fine and okay, about the things we carry when we think no one is watching, about the specific courage it takes to stop saying one and start saying the other. And about what happens when the stranger you married turns out to be the person you've been working toward all along. Featuring: dramatic irony done right, a CEO hero who trims flower stems without being asked, a heroine who designed her own engagement ring without knowing it, one devastatingly timed cheek-kiss, an archive room that smells like cedar and aged silk, and a truth that was always waiting — long, but never late.