Strides Between Us

She kept cards in a drawer. One every year. Father's Day. Jake Clark had two things that mattered: the ability to run and a daughter who believed he would come back. He lost track of both. Jake built something real. Then one wrong step ended his career. What follows isn't a comeback. It's a collapse. Strides Between Us follows Jake from college tracks to city streets, through the years nobody writes about. It is a novel about fatherhood and failure, about the people who wait and the people who vanish, and about what it costs to disappear and what it takes to face the one you left behind.