The Long Way Home

A Willet Island Prequel

He thought he had all the time in the world. Until his heart told him otherwise.

For fourteen years, Ryan Carter has chased the wild—snow leopards in the Himalayas, monsoons in the Amazon, deserts that swallow men whole. Behind every award-winning photograph is the same unspoken truth: he’s running. From the promises he broke. From the girl he left behind on Willet Island. From the life he was too afraid to choose.

But when a sudden heart attack brings him to his knees in the middle of a foreign desert, Ryan is forced to face a terrifying truth—he’s out of second chances. Unless he’s brave enough to make the hardest journey of all: the one back home.

Haunted by memories of Kate Monroe, the girl who believed in forever, Ryan returns to the island that shaped them both. He doesn’t know if forgiveness is possible, or if love can survive so many storms. But this time, he’s ready to find out.

The Long Way Home is a poignant prequel to The Last Promise, a story of reckoning, redemption, and the kind of love that never truly dies.