Forty Years to Find You

A Millbrook Novel

De: Margaret Collins

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Dave Mitchell has always been the steady one—the boy who shows up, the man everyone leans on, the kind of love that feels like a safe place to land. In Millbrook, Michigan, people trust Dave because he never makes anything about himself. He listens. He stays. He holds the quiet weight of other people’s lives like it’s what he was born to do.

Jen Carter is the opposite of stillness. In 1985, she’s bright and breathless and “too much” for a world that doesn’t yet have a name for how her mind works. She forgets things, talks fast, loves fiercely, and makes ordinary days feel electric. And to Dave, she isn’t scattered or difficult—she’s the point. The best part of his week. The girl he’d follow anywhere.

Until one moment changes everything.

Forty Years to Find You is a deeply emotional, small-town love story about first love that never truly leaves you—and the kind of second chance that asks you to be brave in a different way. Across four decades of silence, loss, reinvention, and the choices people make when they think it’s too late, Dave and Jen build separate lives while carrying the same question in their bones: What if the love you never got over is the love you were meant to come home to?

If you love heartfelt women’s fiction with a slow-burning romance, nostalgic 1980s roots, and the tender ache of “almost,” this story will stay with you—because some silences don’t end until the truth is finally spoken.