The Quiet Things

Some love stories start with a spark. This one starts with three years of silence.
Jason couldn't look at her. Mel couldn't look away. Between a front row and the third row of a Ghanaian classroom, something took root - quiet, stubborn, patient - and waited for both of them to be brave enough to call it what it was.
Quiet Things follows Jason and Mel from secondary school to university, through first words and first fights, fairy lights on a veranda and a gate that screams every time someone arrives. It's a love story about the things that live between words - the looks that last too long, the silence that says everything, and the terrifying moment when two people stop pretending and start choosing each other.
But choosing each other is only the beginning. Because the world has plans for the minister's daughter. And the quiet boy from the peeling-paint house was never part of them.

Book One of a four-part series.