THE LIGHT HE LEFT ON

Wes Tanner met Claire on a stairwell three days before his roommate did, and said nothing.

Five years later he is the best man at her wedding. Eight months after that he is the man in Ben Crawford’s house every Tuesday his best friend is out on the road.

Ben is not a fool and he is not a villain. He put the porch light in himself, handed Wes a key to his own front door, and told him that if the light was off, come in anyway. For nine years, off has meant safe.

On a Monday in June the trip gets canceled and nobody tells Wes. At a quarter to nine that night the porch light is off on purpose.

Claire Crawford has spent nine years holding on to two men and never once choosing either of them. She is about to run out of days.

A standalone novel in five parts, told in turns by the two people who did it — a Southern love story about the cost of the one thing you never said out loud.