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Penny has learned to live quietly. In a town where everyone knows everyone’s business, she survives by taking up as little space as she can, stretching paychecks thin and hopes even thinner. Winter presses hard against Pelican Town, and for Penny, it’s just another season to endure.
Peyton arrives with the cold, inheriting a farm she never meant to return to, carrying scars she never asked for, and a silence that doesn’t know how to rest. Once a field medic, discharged after an injury that nearly took her voice, she came to Pelican Town to disappear, not to be seen.
What begins as a small kindness becomes an unexpected shift, a connection between two women learning what they can set down, what they must carry, and how warmth grows in the hardest season.