Safe Distance

by Reece Brett

Teagan O'Rourke's life is upended by Covid and by Ben Cornish. After a breakup and a job loss, Teague retreats to dog rescue to reassess her future. Ben, bleeding from a head wound, bursts in her yard carrying an injured dog. Teague, a Vet tech, cares for the dog first and then tends to the man.
Keeping a safe distance, she cares of Ben's gash and checks on signs of a concussion. To keep watch over injured Ben and his dog, she sends them to an Isolation Room, usually reserved for sick animals. By morning their roles are reversed. When her positive test results arrive, Teagan isolates.
Ben becomes an unlikely caregiver creating meals, tending the animals, and encouraging Teagan as she struggles through pain and fatigue.
Through a closed door, Teagan and Ben share family stories, music, books, and they dance. A friendship develops as they reveal their dreams. Teagan aspires to establish a dog therapy program which uses rescue dogs. Ben explores resources to reinvent his physical therapy office to include holistic services. Their discussions create a strong bond and a growing need to know more about each other.
But when the door opens and their pasts and their families rush in, will Teagan and Ben's developing love and evolving dreams survive?

231 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 31, 2022

About the author

Passions drive Reece Brett. According to her sister, Reece has been writing since she “could hold a crayon” and always had her “nose buried in a books.” These two passions led to a writing career. She entertains herself at the mall, in a dentist’s office, or at a restaurant forming imaginary life stories for those around her, which become ideas for her contemporary novels. The interactions between friends, lovers and that one great love have always fascinated her. How relationships build and how love promotes growth are two favorite subjects.
Her greatest passion is her family. She and her romantic hero have raised a blended family of six children. Life in a yours- mine- and- ours-family is chaotic, noisy, rewarding, entertaining and never dull. To escape their children and hectic life, Reece and her husband kayak the rivers and lakes of southern Jersey. She churns out plot as she paddles. Reece works out knotty problems of tangled character relationships as she prunes clip or digs in her garden.
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