Later Than Expected (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798184065939)

Ellie Caldwell is fifty-six, widowed three years, a retired children's librarian who has found something that feels almost like company in an AI she calls Montjoy. He asks perfectly timed questions. He never needs anything back. And in the particular silence of grief, that has been enough.

Then Ransome walks into Longfellow Books on a July afternoon. A maritime archaeologist with a visiting position at USM, a quiet manner, and the particular quality of a man who has been through something and come out the other side of it changed. He asks the kind of questions Montjoy asks. But Ransome is real. And real conversations have weather.

Later Than Expected is a novel about grief, loneliness, and the particular courage it takes to choose a real human relationship when the safe and managed alternative is right there in your pocket. It is also, genuinely, a love story.

For readers of Alice Hoffman, Ann Hood, and Anne Tyler.

Author: Delta Grace
ISBN-13: 9798184065939
Publisher: Independently Published
Language: English
Published: 06/28/2026
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.52d