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Under an Open Gate
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 20 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.73 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Marcus has built a life around solitude. Horse training. Early mornings. A ranch five miles from anyone who might ask questions. It's worked for fifteen years.
Until his brother Daniel dies, and suddenly Marcus is responsible for Ivy-a teenager drowning in grief, wearing her father's flannel shirt like armor, and skipping class to hide in the school library.
He doesn't know how to help her. Doesn't know if he's enough.
Nora Ashford has spent ten years as the school librarian, building refuge for students who need space more than they need solutions. She recognizes Ivy immediately-the same careful invisibility, the same survival-through-silence.
She recognizes Marcus too. The way he shows up every day at three o'clock, trying to learn a job he never asked for. The quiet competence. The guilt he carries like inheritance.
When the school threatens to close the library, Marcus and Ivy fight to save it. And somewhere between barn work and book returns, between patience and proximity, the three of them become something none of them planned:
A family.
Not the one they were born into. The one they built. One quiet morning at a time.
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