The Weight of A Name: Novel

The Weight of a Name In Santo Domingo's most prestigious university, Rachel Villanueva has never had to introduce herself. The name does it for her, opens doors, arranges futures, and keeps certain people at a careful distance. Marcos Silfa is one of those people. Scholarship student. Medical faculty. Everything the Villanueva name is not. When Rachel arranges for him to tutor her, she tells herself it is practical. He is the strongest student in the faculty. The sessions are efficient. The terms are hers. What she cannot arrange is what happens next. The Weight of a Name is a novel about the cost of belonging to a family, a class, a version of yourself that was chosen for you before you were old enough to refuse it. Set against the layered social world of the Dominican Republic, it is a story about two people who should not work, and what it takes to become the person who can choose them anyway. For readers of literary romance who want something that lingers.

Pages: 267, Paperback, Independently published