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The Sanctuary Affair: The Stillness
Paperback
Series: The Sanctuary Affair, Book 1
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 40
Weight: 0.15
Height: 0.08 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
When Maggie arrives at Aethelgard-the strange, steam-wreathed bathhouse her great-aunt left her-she expects a renovation project and a new revenue stream. Instead, she finds a valley that hums with an ancient, unsettling quiet... and a steward who refuses to let her hide behind productivity.
Silas is everything Maggie is not: grounded, unhurried, and immune to the frantic urgency she carries like armor. The sanctuary itself seems to conspire with him-stripping away her digital leashes, dismantling her compulsive need to perform, and forcing her into a stillness she has avoided for years.
As Maggie is drawn deeper into the rituals of Aethelgard-its thermal pools, its slow, deliberate work, its unnerving silence-she begins to unravel the truth she has buried beneath deadlines and deliverables. Her firm wants her back. Her old life demands her obedience. But the valley has other plans.
When a drone from her past pierces the sanctuary's peace, Maggie must choose: return to the world that consumes her... or claim the sovereignty she never knew she was allowed to have.
Lush, introspective, and quietly powerful, The Sanctuary Affair is a story about burnout, boundaries, and the dangerous beauty of finally stopping.
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