Every March, he texts her. Every September, she texts him back. Two lines. No more. It is the only conversation they allow themselves to have.
Derek Masters and Sadie Monroe spent four years as best friends at the same company in Chicago. They never said what they meant. She moved to Seattle. He married someone else. Twelve years of twice-yearly birthday texts became the quiet architecture of what they were. Two people who had stood at the edge of something and chosen, very carefully, to step back.
Then they end up in Positano at the same time.
Derek is there for his fifth wedding anniversary with a wife who has always known more than she has said. Sadie is there with her closest friends, and an architect named Alex who asks her things out loud and means them. For fourteen days on the Amalfi Coast, everything they never said begins to surface. Slowly. Then all at once.
March & September is a love story about the words we never say, the choices we make out of fear, and the long cost of waiting for the right moment.
For readers of Normal People, One Day, and Conversations with Friends. A novel about the love that stays with you, even when you let it go.