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Still, by Design.: A Meditation on Return
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General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA FictionLiterary Fiction
Publisher: Galena House
Published: Oct 31 2025
Pages: 398
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.82 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some places heal you by watching you live.
At a fifteen-room inn at the foot of a Colorado mountain, Elias has learned to keep time with a building that has outlived everyone who built it. Mornings begin the same way, the kettle, two cups set out without thinking, the gold light crossing the floor one plank at a time.
After years of motion he mistook for purpose, he has found something quieter here: a life measured in small acts of care, and a house that seems to breathe alongside him. When its keeper asks him to stay on, not as help but as something closer to family, Elias must decide whether he is ready to belong to a place, and to the people who keep arriving at its door.
A novel about recovery, belonging, and the slow architecture of a life rebuilt.
Still, by Design. is the first novel from Galena House, a literary house in Frisco, Colorado, and the world of the podcast of the same name, made at the front desk of the inn before the guests wake.
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