Talking at Night

Will White and Rosie Winters meet as teenagers on opposite paths — he's written off as trouble, she's exhausted from trying to be perfect for a mother who expects nothing less. A single late-night conversation at a bonfire changes everything between them. Then a tragedy at a party the following year shatters their small world, pulling Will and Rosie apart even as grief binds them together.

Over the next fifteen years, their lives run parallel and collide: relationships start and end, careers take shape, and Rosie's unraveling mental health resurfaces in ways she can't always name. Through it all, when neither can sleep, they call each other — sometimes as friends, sometimes as something neither will admit to wanting. Talking at Night follows two people who keep almost choosing each other, tracing how a single formative loss can shape a decade of near-misses before either is ready to stop running from what they feel.