The debut novel by Veronica Helena Cortez
The Time of a Hug
“Sometimes the right person arrives at the worst possible time”
Also on Amazon UK: paperback · Kindle
The story
Ginevra has made control her armour. A new job, an important project and a method that has never let her down: you plan, you keep control, you don’t improvise.
Then the project takes her away, to a city by the sea, and puts her next to Andrea: the colleague with a joke always ready, the man she can’t stand at first. Between a coffee and a work trip, between a slide and a train, what looked like annoyance turns into something neither of them can afford. Because each of them has a life waiting at home. And because the time they have isn’t theirs to decide.
The Time of a Hug is a love story in which almost everything goes unsaid — and everything happens: six months of meetings and work trips, of aimless walks and stolen hugs, told from his side too.
A novel about love that arrives when it can’t, about the courage not to take everything, and about how much one person can change your life in the time of a hug.
Who this book is for
For readers of contemporary romance, slow-burn workplace love stories and endings that don't console you, but stay with you.
- forbidden love
- workplace romance
- enemies to lovers
- dual point of view
- bittersweet love
- seaside city
One thing to know before you start: this isn't a classic happy ending.
The book at a glance
- Author
- Veronica Helena Cortez
- Illustrations
- Beatrice Mosca
- Genre
- Contemporary romance
- Paperback
- 221 pages, ISBN 9798173387745
- Ebook
- Kindle, free with Kindle Unlimited
- Where to buy it
- On Amazon, in paperback and on Kindle
The author
Veronica Helena Cortez collects stories: the whispered ones, the ones left hanging, the ones that could have gone differently. She loves the sea, jazz and endings that don't console you, but make you think.
On Instagram
The book told in pictures on @veronicahelenacortez.
A novel about how much one person can change your life in the time of a hug.
Also on Amazon UK: paperback · Kindle