Distant Love

Miri and Win's first encounter, at a university party, is meant to be a one-off. But the two keep crossing paths, and neither can quite shake what happened between them. Set partly in Australia, "Distant Love" follows their halting, repeatedly derailed attempt at something real.

Misunderstandings, fear of commitment, and the distance — geographic and emotional — between them keep pulling the two apart just as they get close. Nicole Knoblauch, a member of the German-speaking romance authors' association DELIA, builds the romance around two flawed, believable people rather than easy reconciliation.