The Weight of Grace

Kaizen noticed her before she ever noticed him. The girl at the barre with the careful posture and the kind of laugh that made a room feel warmer. He spent months working up the nerve - and then she disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a lie that took him years to stop believing.

Clarrisse never meant to hurt him. She was trying to protect him from something she couldn't name out loud. Now she's twenty-one, still carrying what happened, and the last person she expected to see again is the one person who might actually understand.

But healing is slower and messier than falling in love - and Clarrisse has to find her way back to herself before she can let anyone else in.