Time in Evergreen Hollow had a way of slipping by like a perfect breakout pass—fast, beautiful, and over before you realized how far you’d come.

Lily Kane-Harper was thirty now, in her tenth pro season with Boston, a veteran leader wearing the C on her jersey. Nathan’s community work had taken them to speaking engagements across the country, but they always came home to their brownstone on the Charles and the lake house in the summers.

Everett Kane was twenty-eight, a ...