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    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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Winter Retreat

Winter Retreat

Halestone, Mira

Paperback

Classic Fiction

ISBN13: 9798243406734
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 10 2026
Pages: 100
Weight: 0.24
Height: 0.21 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Winter RetreatIn the deep quiet of winter, a woman arrives at a remote mountain retreat carrying exhaustion she can no longer outrun. The world she steps into is stripped down to its essentials - snow, silence, pine, and the steady rhythms of a land that asks nothing of her. Here, healing does not come through revelation or confession, but through stillness.As she moves through the days - walking the forest paths, sitting in the chapel's dim light, listening to the breath of the pines - she begins to feel the world soften around her. And within her. The retreat becomes a place where she can finally hear her own breath again.At the edges of this quiet stands the Keeper, a watchful presence who tends the land with a reverence that borders on devotion. He appears without announcement and disappears without sound, offering no explanations, no questions, no demands. His presence is not a mystery to be solved, but a steadiness to be felt - a reminder that care can exist without intrusion, and that safety can be wordless.Through snowfall and dawn light, through hidden clearings and the warmth of a lantern left on her porch, she slowly relearns what it means to inhabit her own life. The retreat does not change her all at once. It simply gives her room - to breathe, to rest, to return to herself.Winter Retreat is a quiet, contemplative novel about the slow work of healing, the dignity of presence, and the way a landscape can hold a person until they can hold themselves again. It is a story for anyone who has ever needed to step away from the noise of the world and rediscover the warmth beneath their own silence.

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