Run for your Life, Callie Kingman by Alli Frank & Asha Youmans
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, CALLIE KINGMAN
A WOMEN’S FICTION NOVEL WITH A GEN X MC AND A LOVE STORY
In RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, CALLIE KINGMAN (Montlake; December 30, 2025), Alli Frank and Asha Youmans are at the height of their genre-bending storytelling powers in this revelatory love letter to Gen X women everywhere. Frank and Youmans share, “Within these pages, we did our best to explore many of the varying loves that exist in most people’s lives: Love of hometown. Familial love. Love of camaraderie and lifelong friendships. Intimate love. And most important, self-love.”
RUN FOR YOUR LIFE, CALLIE KINGMAN
Alli Frank & Asha Youmans
299 Pgs, Montlake
Pub Date: Dec 30, 2025
A blindsided soon-to-be divorcée rediscovers herself in this witty, celebratory novel about a hard-fought comeback
Two decades have passed since Callie Kingman begrudgingly followed her husband, Thomas, across the country in pursuit of his career at the expense of her own. Today, Callie is an empty nester with no job prospects, a declining mother, and a spouse who announces his intention to leave her—in Sacramento, the dullest city in America. His parting potshot: “It’s not me, it’s you.”
Taking to bed, Callie relies on delivery for food, her neighbor for booze, and her college best friend for commiseration. When an overdue annual exam leads to a health scare, Callie is forced to contend with her fractured and unfulfilled life by revisiting the vibrant, indomitable woman she used to be.
From her idyllic years at Princeton and an extraordinary first love to the pressures all women face to strive, serve, and be sexy as hell, once again she’s face-to-face with it all. Callie is running for her life, determined to forge a path ahead that is better than the one she’s leaving behind.
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ABOUT THE AUTHORS
Alli Frank and Asha Youmans are co-authors of Tiny Imperfections (Random House, 2020), Never Meant to Meet You (Montlake, 2022), The Better Half (Mindy’s Book Studio, 2023), Boss Lady (Montlake, 2024), and now Run For Your Life, Callie Kingman (Montlake; December 30, 2025). Learn more about them at: http://www.alliandasha.com.
Alli Frank has worked in public and private schools for over twenty years. A graduate of Cornell and Stanford University, Alli lives in Sun Valley, Idaho, with her husband and two daughters. In addition to co-authoring novels with Asha Youmans, she has published essays in Moms Don’t Have Time to: A Quarantine Anthology and the USA Today bestseller On Being Jewish Now.
Asha Youmans is the daughter of an educational pioneer and children’s hospital administrator. After graduating UC Berkeley, Asha spent the next twenty years teaching elementary school. Asha continues to work in schools in Seattle, Washington, believing children keep her youthful,as do her husband and two sons.
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