The Weight of Falling: A Novel

The Weight of Falling: A Story of Loss, Second Chances, and the Quiet Ways We Come Home to Ourselves

Some ghosts build houses. Others learn to live inside them.

Three years after the accident that took her fiancé’s life, architect Nora Bennett returns to the Oregon coast to sell the unfinished cottage they designed together. She expects a hollow shell of memories, nothing more.

She doesn’t expect Jack Hart.
The contractor is restoring the property.
The man responsible for the crash.

Jack has carried the same guilt that haunts Nora, building the cottage as his own attempt at redemption. But when she walks back into his life, demanding the truth he’s avoided for years, the past becomes impossible to outrun.

Forced to work together, Nora and Jack rebuild more than a forgotten home. Nail by nail. Board by board. Storm by storm. Walls crumble, secrets surface, and a fragile connection grows into something neither of them is ready for, or sure they deserve.

Forgiveness is a risk.
Love is dangerous.
But healing waits for them in the quiet spaces they’re learning to build again.

The Weight of Falling is an emotional standalone romance about grief, redemption, and the tender courage it takes to choose love after loss.
Perfect for readers who love:

• Slow-burn second chances
• Small-town coastal settings
• Deep emotional healing
• Characters rebuilding life, love, and themselves