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A Soft Mourning
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Nov 28 2025
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
After the death of his partner, Ira, reclusive writer Virgil Channing has spent a decade hidden inside a crumbling lakeside house, living half a life and avoiding the manuscript Ira left behind. He's not writing. He's barely surviving.
Then four young strangers arrive at his door-each carrying a mysterious connection to Ira's past and their own private grief.
A gentle caregiver with a loss of her own.
An anxious prodigy on the brink.
A firebrand hiding fear behind humor.
They claim the house belongs to them through Ira's old trust. They insist on staying. And suddenly Virgil's carefully constructed loneliness begins to crack.
When a storm traps them together, Virgil gives them a task meant to reveal the one truth they're all running from:
Write a letter for the day you might choose to give up.
The assignment ignites a chain reaction of confession, confrontation, and emotional collapse-forcing Virgil to reckon with his own unfinished grief. In the basement, buried among Ira's belongings, he finds a letter addressed only to him... and the missing key to finishing Ira's final story.
To save the four who upended his quiet life-and to save himself-Virgil must step out of the house where he's been dying in slow motion and choose the world again.
A Soft Mourning is a deeply emotional, hauntingly beautiful novel about grief, found family, and the extraordinary ways love echoes through the people we meet long after loss.
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