The Story

A Detour Worth Taking

Samantha knows how to frame a moment. Choosing a life is harder.
With a six-month invitation to Kenya awaiting her answer, the twenty-five-year-old photographer escapes instead to Sedona. She plans to spend one weekend chasing unfamiliar light. Then she meets Andrew.

He is precise where she is impulsive, prepared where she improvises, and far more interesting than a man who organizes information for a living has any right to be. A predawn hike through the red rocks leaves Samantha injured, Andrew unexpectedly unguarded, and both of them carrying home something neither intended to find.

But her current boyfriend Liam is not a mistake waiting to be corrected. He is the man Samantha loves, a fellow photographer who knows her history and is asking for a future. Andrew offers no easy rescue, only a connection that makes every unanswered question harder to ignore.

Between the life she has built and the possibility she never planned for, Samantha must finally stop chasing the perfect image long enough to see what is already there.

Sedona Detour is the first book in the Cozy Cactus Series.