OUT OF SYNC

At twenty-four, decorated Marine Sergeant Alex Walker arrives at the University of Maryland as a freshman who has already survived two wars. Catastrophic combat wounds have left him out of sync with what most people consider a normal life.

Then he meets Emma, a senior whose deceptively simple questions over Thursday coffee begin to unsettle his expectations. An unlikely friendship gradually becomes something neither of them anticipated.

As their relationship deepens, Alex must confront what his wounds mean for intimacy, marriage, family, and his own identity. Surviving was one kind of courage. Imagining a future together may ask something different of them both.

OUT OF SYNC is an upmarket contemporary novel about the life that follows survival. Centered on Alex and Emma, it explores the distance between the future we expect and the one we might build with someone else. It is a story of human connection, the consequences of courage, and the possibility of belonging.