Nikola Muckajev
For a while, it works.Celia Harcourt has made a good life alone. Owen Mercer likes his own life, too. When they meet, their pleasure in each other fits the terms they choose: separate homes, wanted evenings, no assumption that one encounter must lead to the next.Then Celia begins to want a connection that holds between meetings. Owen still wants to see her. He does not want the continuing relationship she is asking for.Across a summer, four September dinners and a winter drawing near, they try to discover what affection can make possible, and what it cannot make either of them want.