Just Wide Enough for Two

Emily Dickinson has waited years for Susan Gilbert to return to Massachusetts. Their friendship holds a memory neither has explained: a kiss in the woods before Susan went away. Emily hopes the reunion might revive what she has kept private, but her brother Austin also takes an interest in Susan. A new acquaintance, Benjamin Newton, offers Emily a different kind of companionship and another reason to question what she should want. Susan, meanwhile, has not forgotten their kiss and longs for a chance to speak with Emily alone. This historical romance imagines two women trying to recognize one another's feelings while the expectations of the people around them pull their lives in other directions.