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Synopsis
At a fifteen-room inn at the foot of a Colorado mountain, a man who mistook motion for purpose keeps 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.
When the inn's keeper asks him to stay, not as help but as something closer to family, he must decide whether he is ready to belong to a place, and to the people who keep arriving at its door.
Still, by Design. is the world before the reckoning, the first room in a larger house. A novel about recovery, belonging, and the slow architecture of a life rebuilt, told in lyrical vignettes across a year of seasons at nine thousand feet.
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About the Author
Avery Lane Maxwell writes at nine thousand feet. His novels are made in the building they describe, a fifteen-room inn on Galena Street in Frisco, Colorado, where he keeps the front desk: early mornings before the guests come down, the hour between arrivals, the long off-season quiet of a mountain town in winter. Still, by Design. is his debut. He also makes Galena House Audio, a scored audio essay podcast recorded at the same desk, and is a member of the Colorado Authors League. averylanemaxwell.com
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Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. Nestled at the base of Mount Royal in Frisco, Colorado, the Frisco Inn on Galena stands like a living organism - breathing, remembering, and healing with the people who pass through its doors. Once a guest himself, Elias Keating has returned to the Inn not as a wanderer, but as its caretaker. Sober, steady, and rebuilding, Elias's days unfold like ritual: the morning espresso pulled in silence, the scent of cedar in the hallways, the steady hum of the baseboards that sound almost like forgiveness.As the story opens, we follow Elias through these early hours of mountain light - how he listens to the rhythm of the house, learns the quiet language of repair, and discovers that stillness can be an act of design. Yet beneath that calm lies a tremor: the past he left behind, and the man he never stopped thinking about.When Jacob Hale unexpectedly returns to Frisco - a familiar face with a gentler energy, changed by time and distance - the delicate order of Elias's world is tested. Their reunion is unhurried, woven through coffee steam, laughter from the dining room, and glances that say everything words won't. As the snow begins to thaw and the Inn wakes into spring, the two men navigate what it means to rebuild connection without losing the selves they've fought to become.Around them, the Inn hums with life: Alyssa, Elias's younger sister, fills the mornings with her easy warmth and sass; August, the Inn's philosopher-hearted artist, designs moments as tender as they are fleeting; The Traveler, a mysterious guest and mirror to Elias's own restlessness, scribbles in the corner near the fire; and the guests who come and go leave fragments of their stories - laughter, letters, sketches, and the scent of cinnamon and cream - embedded in the Inn's bones.Through lyrical vignettes and quietly cinematic days, Still, by Design moves through the seasons - from the gingerbread-scented hush of winter to the thaw of spring, from summer's porchlight evenings to the amber glow of autumn. Each act reveals another layer of Elias's healing: recovery not just from addiction, but from self-erasure; love that doesn't rescue but reminds; belonging that isn't granted but chosen.By the novel's close, the Inn itself becomes a metaphor for grace - imperfect, enduring, and alive. When Jacob departs for a season to rebuild his own life, he leaves behind a letter that reads: "The house you built keeps finding me." Elias, no longer waiting to be saved, simply smiles and lets the day begin.Still, by Design is an atmospheric, queer literary romance - part Nights in Rodanthe, part The Alchemist - a meditation on recovery, faith, and the ordinary holiness of paying attention. It's a story about building something worth staying for: a home, a rhythm, a self.Tone & Market PositioningGenre: Literary Fiction / LGBTQ+ Contemporary / Character-Driven RomanceStyle: Lyrical prose with vignettes and introspective narration (reminiscent of Taylor Jenkins Reid, Ocean Vuong, Nicholas Sparks, and Andre Aciman)Themes: Recovery and rebirth - Belonging and forgiveness - Design and ritual - Love as presence, not rescue - Found family in small spaces Still, by Design explores the art of rebuilding through love, loss, and the steady rhythm of forgiveness. Each chapter unfolds like a whispered prayer, reminding us that healing doesn't happen by chance, but by design. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9798993725031
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