The Way Life Goes (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798996497300)

Years of silence end with a call.

When Ayla returns to the Big Sur coast, she expects to sign the papers, pack the memories, and leave. Her father is gone, and the house on the cliffs now belongs to her.

But after years of constant motion and creative burnout, the stillness she's avoided begins to pull her closer. Through her father's journals-pages filled with his discoveries and the questions she's carried for a decade-Ayla begins to see life a little differently. And Ford, the man who once looked after her father, now lives quietly next door, and in his own way, does the same for her in return.

In each other, they uncover a shared understanding of love, loss, and the slow acceptance of life as it comes. After all, that's just the way life goes.