Weight of Flowers - 18+ Fantasy Novella

She swore she'd never fall for anyone—until love showed up behind the kitchen line.

At 19, she’s seen enough heartache to last a lifetime. Abandoned by her mother at birth, raised by a no-nonsense grandmother, and barely scraping by as a waitress at the Sunset Grill in Astoria, New York—Ava has no time for love, no use for fairy tales, and zero interest in repeating her mother’s mistakes.

But when a charming, caring cook walks into her world, things get complicated.
Fast.

Told with raw emotion, fast-paced storytelling, and moments that hit deep, Weight of Flowers explores what happens when a girl too guarded to bloom is offered a second chance at life—and maybe, just maybe, at love.

Will she follow in her mother’s footsteps… or forge a different path entirely?

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Weight of Flowers is a poignant, soul-stirring literary work that explores the fragile tension between beauty and burden. Each page blossoms with raw emotion, tracing the quiet heaviness we carry—through loss, memory, hope, and healing.

This is a story for anyone who has loved deeply, grieved silently, or found themselves crushed beneath the very things that once lifted them.

Delicate and powerful, Weight of Flowers is a meditation on the invisible things we carry, and the blooming that follows surrender.