Both

A Love Story About Seeing Beyond Sight

When Mark Peters first noticed Judy Faust sitting before a pen and ink drawing in Milwaukee's art museum, he couldn't know that both their lives were about to change forever.

Judy returns twice weekly to gaze at the drawing—her own creation, made three years earlier when she could still see. Diagnosed with retinitis pigmentosa, she has six months before complete blindness. She's memorizing every line, saying goodbye to the world of sight.

Mark, a photographer seeking inspiration, finds it in Judy's quiet strength. As their connection deepens, he learns to describe the world, Teaching her to see through words what her eyes can no longer capture.

But as darkness closes in, both must navigate new terrain: Judy learning to create art without sight, Mark learning that love means being a partner, not a savior. Together, they discover that vision is more than what the eyes can see.

Both is an achingly beautiful exploration of loss and transformation, independence and intimacy, and the courage it takes to love someone—and yourself—through life's hardest transitions.

Set against the backdrop of Milwaukee's vibrant art scene, this novel reminds us that we are all both things: who we were and who we're becoming. What we've lost and what we've found.

Sometimes the deepest way to see is through someone else's eyes.