Nora Vane restores broken buildings for a living. She knows how to read a structure ? where it's failing, what it needs, whether it's worth saving.

The Cormorant Hotel is worth saving. She's less certain about its owner.

Eli Crane has been living alone in the Victorian clifftop hotel since his father died, eighteen months of salt air and silence while his marriage quietly dissolves in Boston. He didn't hire Nora to fix him. He hired her to fix the building.

But something happens in the space between blueprints and bare walls ? in the long evenings in the kitchen, on the widow's walk above the Atlantic, in the ballroom where the floors still hold the memory of every person who ever danced there. Two people who have both learned to keep careful distance start to let the walls come down.

The Weight of You is a slow-burn contemporary romance set on the Maine coast ? atmospheric, sensual, and deeply felt. For readers who like their love stories built the way good houses are: carefully, with intention, and made to last.