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The Light Between Us
A heartfelt, 80s-mixtape-tinged second-chance romance with a time-kissed twist.
Time changes everything — except the way we remember. The Light Between Us is a story about two souls caught between the shadows of yesterday and the glow of today. It’s about photographs and sketches, letters never sent, and the courage to face what might have been. Evocative, lyrical, and deeply human, this is a novel that lingers like the last light of day — soft, golden, and full of promise.
A dual-timeline novel filled with warmth, nostalgia, and second chances, The Light Between Us what if your first love found you again, forty years later? Moving effortlessly between past and present, it explores love, loss, and the choices that define us.
Written by photographer and storyteller Steve McCarthy, His debut novel, The Light Between Us, blends art and emotion into a story of connection that defies time. Through Sean’s lens and Linda’s sketches, we see how creativity can preserve what the heart cannot forget. Spanning decades and continents, this is a dual-timeline love story about seeing the world differently — and discovering that sometimes, the truest masterpieces are the lives we build together.
Time changes everything — except the way we remember. The Light Between Us is a story about two souls caught between the shadows of yesterday and the glow of today. It’s about photographs and sketches, letters never sent, and the courage to face what might have been. Evocative, lyrical, and deeply human, this is a novel that lingers like the last light of day — soft, golden, and full of promise.
A dual-timeline novel filled with warmth, nostalgia, and second chances, The Light Between Us what if your first love found you again, forty years later? Moving effortlessly between past and present, it explores love, loss, and the choices that define us.
Written by photographer and storyteller Steve McCarthy, His debut novel, The Light Between Us, blends art and emotion into a story of connection that defies time. Through Sean’s lens and Linda’s sketches, we see how creativity can preserve what the heart cannot forget. Spanning decades and continents, this is a dual-timeline love story about seeing the world differently — and discovering that sometimes, the truest masterpieces are the lives we build together.
331 pages, Hardcover
Published December 1, 2025
About the author
Steve McCarthy
8 books1 followerSteve McCarthy is a contemporary fiction author, as well as a landscape, sports & events photographer and podcaster, based in Wiltshire (often found chasing light along Cornwall’s north coast). Whatever the medium, Steve is obsessed with stories, especially the small, everyday moments that change everything.
In his novels, he writes warm, hopeful, heartfelt stories about time, second chances and the lives we almost lived: contemporary fiction that treats ordinary people and their emotions with care, humour and honesty. I love exploring how a single decision, a missed train, a delayed moment, a chance encounter, can ripple through a life.
That same storytelling instinct drives his photography. On the sports and events side, he shoots with energy and empathy, clean, accurate and fast.
His landscape work is slower and more reflective. Drawn to places where weather, tide and terrain collide, and he aims to make images that feel like scenes from a story, prints that bring back not just how a coastline looked, but how it felt to stand there.
In his novels, he writes warm, hopeful, heartfelt stories about time, second chances and the lives we almost lived: contemporary fiction that treats ordinary people and their emotions with care, humour and honesty. I love exploring how a single decision, a missed train, a delayed moment, a chance encounter, can ripple through a life.
That same storytelling instinct drives his photography. On the sports and events side, he shoots with energy and empathy, clean, accurate and fast.
His landscape work is slower and more reflective. Drawn to places where weather, tide and terrain collide, and he aims to make images that feel like scenes from a story, prints that bring back not just how a coastline looked, but how it felt to stand there.
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March 27, 2026
Stunning. So beautifully written and evocative. One to remember
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