The Weight of Him

This is not the love story she thought it was.Lily Dawson has loved Blake Hudson since she was sixteen. When they find their way back to each other years later, everything she ever wanted finally feels real - marriage, a baby daughter, a life worth building.Then one night, she picks up his phone.What follows is not a dramatic betrayal. It is something quieter. Harder to name.Blake's version of honesty becomes its own kind of trap, and Lily finds herself slowly disappearing inside a relationship she no longer recognises. Each new revelation arrives wrapped in reason. Each boundary shifts with a careful explanation. Every question has an answer. Every doubt is gently turned back on her.And slowly, almost without noticing, Lily begins to change.The things she once trusted feel uncertain. The lines she once wouldn't cross begin to blur. And by the time she understands what has been done to her, she has almost forgotten who she was before it started.Almost.A deeply felt and quietly devastating novel about coercive control, The Weight of Him follows one woman's journey from the inside of something she cannot yet name - and the question of whether she will find a way out before she disappears completely.

Pages: 262, Paperback, Independently published