"Our Red Thread" is a story of love, depression, and finding happiness with the one you love. The red thread theory, or the red string of fate, is the belief that there is a red thread connecting two people who are destined to be together. That no matter what obstacles there are between them, nothing will keep them apart.

Cora and Lewis, two youths with seemingly nothing in common, come together in spite of their peers. Unlikely friends fall in love, and four years later, their life together seems perfect: Lewis has a high-paying job, the two share a luxury apartment in the city, and Lewis is ready to ask Cora to marry him. 

But what happens when Cora disappears without a word? How does Lewis react when he sees her lurking in the doorway at one of his conferences? 

When he decides he needs to find out why she left, he gets more than he bargained for.

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