The Weight of Quiet Things

In a quiet Southern town filled with memory and silence, twenty-year-old Natia Hale is slowly losing the only person she has left-her Aunt Mae, who took her in after her parents died. As Mae's health fades, so does Natia's grip on the past she's spent years trying to preserve inside the walls of their aging family home. When her estranged cousin Nathaniel returns with a lawyer to challenge Mae's will, Natia finds herself unexpectedly caught between two men: Isaac, her former high school tormentor turned coffee shop owner with a sincere apology and old regrets, and Adrian, Nathaniel's lawyer-sharp, kind, and frustratingly unreadable. But Adrian doesn't know her past. He's learning who she is now. And as grief presses in and the house begins to feel more like a burden than a refuge, Natia must decide whether to stay rooted in everything she's ever known-or choose a future that asks her to finally let go.