How We End

Wyatt Cassidy Halliday knows exactly what desire costs. At thirty-five, the high-end escort has built a life beneath the neon lights of Las Vegas—one she's sure is running out of ways to love her back. Survival has become performance, routine, armor. But even armor wears thin.

Julian Silver was supposed to have it all. Fame, fortune, and a career most athletes dream of. Instead, at thirty-four, the star winger for the Las Vegas Desert Coyotes is falling apart—injuries, pressure, and the quiet fear that he's already seen his last great moment.

They meet on a night meant to mean nothing. A transaction. A temporary escape. But connection has a way of slipping in sideways, and what should have been one night becomes something neither of them planned for—and neither quite knows how to hold.

As the life Wyatt has built collides with the future Julian is fighting for, both are forced to confront the same truth: wanting more is terrifying when you've convinced yourself you don't deserve it. Love doesn't come without sacrifice… and some sacrifices change everything.

How We End is an emotional, character-driven romance about two people in their mid-thirties learning to trust the kind of love that doesn't rush, doesn't pretend, and doesn't let them hide.