WW

In the second year, Kent returns from war to a house that has already rearranged itself around you. In Pelican Town, everything has a season: planting, growing, harvest, return. But some things bloom at the wrong time, in the wrong place, for the wrong person. What begins as a quiet, unwanted recognition grows through the small, inescapable days of the valley—an attraction he never asked for and cannot seem to starve. Married, controlled, and bound by loyalty, he wages a private war against the slow pull of something that feels both inevitable and unforgivable.