Before You Were Mine

By: Charlotte Dinnis

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

She hasn’t seen him since college.
She hasn’t said his name in years.
Now he’s back.

Sarai Mitchell has built a life rooted in purpose and steadiness. As a professor at Magnolia State University, she is respected, composed, and quietly fulfilled. She knows who she is now—and she’s learned not to look back at what once broke her.

Then Homecoming brings Nolan Chase back into her orbit.

In college, Nolan was the one place Sarai felt unguarded. Their connection was private, intense, and deeply real—until it wasn’t. Whatever happened between them ended without closure, leaving Sarai to move forward alone and Nolan to disappear entirely.

Now, years later, they’re forced into the same space again when a destination wedding pulls them into close proximity—shared events, shared friends, and too many moments that echo with unfinished history. Nolan has built a successful, enviable life of his own, but the man Sarai encounters is still the one who never fully explained why he left.

As old feelings resurface and long-held truths strain to be spoken, Sarai must decide whether reopening the past is worth the risk of being hurt again. And Nolan must confront the cost of choosing distance when love required presence.

Because some connections don’t fade with time.
They wait.

A clean, emotionally layered contemporary romance about first love, second chances, and the courage it takes to stay.