
The Distance Between Us
Kevin Lee(Author)
Independently Published
Published on 12. May 2026
Book
Paperback/Softback
128 pages
979-8-1955-9799-3 (ISBN)
Description
Columbus, Ohio. 2026. A country holding its breath. Nadia Beaupré is a civil rights attorney - the daughter of Haitian immigrants, precise and self-contained, who has spent her career fighting the thing that took her cousin from her. Eli Carter is a veteran turned community organizer - white, from rural Wayne County, estranged from his family over politics - who still believes, in his bones, that the Constitution is a promise worth keeping.
They meet in a federal waiting room. The line doesn't move. The coffee is bad. They share it anyway.
What begins as an unlikely connection deepens against the backdrop of a sweeping new law designed to silence dissent - and the people who will do anything to make sure it stands. When Eli organizes a veterans' march to the statehouse and Nadia fights the legal battles to protect it, their love becomes a living argument: that the distance between red and blue, between us and them, between the country we are and the country we could be, is not as wide as the people who profit from division need it to be.
But freedom is not free. And the people who want it silenced are not finished.
The Distance Between Us is a love story, a legal thriller, and a portrait of an America at a crossroads - moving, political, and ultimately hopeful in the way that only earned hope can be. It asks what we owe each other. And it answers, quietly and completely: more than we've been giving.
They meet in a federal waiting room. The line doesn't move. The coffee is bad. They share it anyway.
What begins as an unlikely connection deepens against the backdrop of a sweeping new law designed to silence dissent - and the people who will do anything to make sure it stands. When Eli organizes a veterans' march to the statehouse and Nadia fights the legal battles to protect it, their love becomes a living argument: that the distance between red and blue, between us and them, between the country we are and the country we could be, is not as wide as the people who profit from division need it to be.
But freedom is not free. And the people who want it silenced are not finished.
The Distance Between Us is a love story, a legal thriller, and a portrait of an America at a crossroads - moving, political, and ultimately hopeful in the way that only earned hope can be. It asks what we owe each other. And it answers, quietly and completely: more than we've been giving.
More details
Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
183 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-1955-9799-3 (9798195597993)
Schweitzer Classification