Which Way Was I Always Going?: A Thesis Novel

Grant Whitfield believes he's an unremarkable man - a structural engineer who trusts what holds and distrusts what doesn't. Elena Castellanos has spent eleven years disciplining herself out of the strange, inherited certainty her mother called "a way of listening." Then an anonymous call and a stranger in an elevator collide their lives at the one moment neither of them was prepared to believe in anything they couldn't explain.What follows is not quite a love story and not quite a ghost story - a night that unfolds into trees made of folded light, a table that shouldn't exist, and a photograph that arrives with no explanation and somehow becomes their whole future. Across one extraordinary year, Grant and Elena are forced to ask the question the book never quite answers for them: were they ever really choosing any of this, or was every step of it decided long before either of them walked through the doors?Which Way Was I Always Going? is a literary novel about grief, inheritance, and the uneasy comfort of not needing to know - for readers who loved the quiet strangeness of The Time Traveler's Wife or the philosophical pull of The Midnight Library.