The Glass Between Us

When New York art teacher Cora Callahan steps too close to a painting in a quiet museum gallery, she doesn't just see the diner on the canvas-she finds herself inside it. The year is 1941. The city is dark, rationed, and bracing for a war it doesn't yet know how to name. At the counter are Walt, the steadfast diner man with a son in the Pacific; Dot, a red-haired woman whose husband is in North Africa; and Hank, a dockworker still waiting for a letter he'll never want to read.
The painting-created by the legendary and mysterious Elias Vandermeer, who reportedly walked into his studio in 1943 and was never seen again-holds its people close. And now it's holding Cora. As the night deepens and the air raid sirens rise, Cora discovers what war really does to a city-not in headlines, but in gold stars in windows, in dark streets, in the simple act of putting a cup of coffee in front of someone who can't find their way home.
The Glass Between Us is a gripping, emotionally charged novella about time, grief, belonging, and why some lights are worth keeping on.