How We Became Ourselves: A Slow-Burn M/M Romance of Starting Over and Staying Kindle Edition

He didn’t lose everything all at once.It happened in pieces. Quietly. Then all at once.On the same day his divorce is finalized, Oliver Harding loses his job.Not dramatically. Not loudly.Just enough to remove the last structure holding his life in place.So he leaves.A one-way flight to France. A pack. No real plan.He starts in Nice and walks north into the Alps, chasing something he can’t quite name—only that staying would mean becoming someone he no longer recognizes.Out there, nothing responds to control.Not the terrain. Not the weather. Not his own body.And definitely not Julien.Julien is steady where Oliver is unraveling. Present in a way that feels almost dangerous. He doesn’t ask for explanations. He doesn’t try to fix anything.He just stays.What begins as coincidence becomes routine.What feels temporary starts to take shape.And the closer Oliver gets to something real, the more it threatens everything he thought he understood about himself.Because this isn’t about starting over.It’s about whether he’s capable of staying when something finally matters.How We Became Ourselves is a slow-burn M/M literary romance about collapse, distance, and the quiet, difficult work of becoming someone who can be seen—and choosing not to disappear when it counts. Read more