Living Lightly

Harry Styles never meant to disappear - only to slip quietly out of a life that had grown too heavy to carry.
Swapping high expectations for a small flat with blank walls and a handful of worn polaroids, he hopes for a clean start, or at least the chance to breathe without being watched.

What he doesn't expect is Salish Rowan, the neighbour with a soft laugh, storm-blue eyes, and a talent for slipping past his walls without ever meaning to. Nor does he expect her world: a tangle of siblings, mismatched friends, and gentle chaos that makes his own silence feel suddenly, painfully loud.

As Harry tries to rebuild himself in the quiet, Salish becomes an anchor he never asked for - steady, kind, and stubborn enough to notice the cracks he keeps trying to hide. And though her life is far from perfect, she carries her own version of lightness in the way she moves through the world... a lightness Harry aches to understand.

But when the shadows of Harry's past reach out - the pressure, the people, the version of himself he ran from - he must decide whether he's brave enough to step fully into the new life waiting on the other side of his own front door.

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Living Lightly is a tender, character-driven story about second chances, learning softness, and the quiet people who change us without ever asking for anything in return.
Not quite a love story. Not yet.
But the beginning of something that just might become one.