Kari Borgmann

  Grief rarely follows a straight line, and healing is seldom graceful. In her emotionally resonant debut novel, One Year , Dr. Kari G. Borgmann captures this truth with unflinching honesty, offering readers a story that reflects the quiet, complicated reality of loss—and the unexpected possibility of renewal. One Year tells the story of a woman whose life collapses when her husband of thirty-eight years dies suddenly. With her children living far away and her carefully ordered existence gone, she finds herself suspended between who she was and who she might become. When a short-term work opportunity takes her to Iowa, she encounters a man who has deliberately closed himself off from love for fifteen years. Their meeting is not planned, not simple, and not free of consequences. Rather than centering on romance alone, One Year explores the emotional aftermath of long-term partnership, the loneliness that follows profound loss, and the courage required to imagine a future that...

  What happens when the life you carefully built disappears in a single moment? In One Year , the debut novel by Dr. Kari G. Borgmann , readers are invited into a deeply human story of grief, resilience, unexpected love, and the quiet bravery it takes to rebuild after devastating loss. Blending love, mystery, adventure, and emotional healing, One Year follows a woman who loses her husband of thirty-eight years and finds herself suddenly untethered. With her children living far away and her once-predictable world fractured, she accepts a short-term job in Iowa—an impulsive decision that becomes the catalyst for transformation. There, she meets a man who has been emotionally alone for fifteen years, carrying a secret that will ultimately change both of their lives. What unfolds is not a conventional romance, but a layered exploration of grief, personal identity, and the complexities of starting over later in life. One Year captures the emotional terrain of widowhood, the unspok...