Eastern Standard

"Maybe he loved me because he wanted to add a piece of sunshine to endless midnights."

Olivia Carrington met her husband in a bar on the Upper East Side. She lost him on the same street, nine blocks down.

Three months after his death, she moves to Connor Bay, the small New England town where he grew up. Olivia has never been there before. She's a stranger with a New York accent, a temporary address, and a connection to the town's grief that no one asked for.

Connor Bay remembers him as a son, ...