The Weight of Everything

Kael has spent his whole life three feet from power — close enough to feel it, never allowed to hold it. He has spent every year since closing that distance, and by the time our story opens, he is celebrated, envied, surrounded by everything he ever said he wanted. He still doesn't feel full. Then he loses the one person he loved to something he couldn't follow her into — an idea, a promised utopia past dark water and the monsters that live there — and surfaces alone on a road he doesn't recognize, carrying a weight he has never had a name for.That road leads him, by accident, to Aela: an ancient elf who wants nothing, needs nothing, and seems — inexplicably, almost offensively — completely at peace. What follows is a long, quiet journey through a world still exhaling from a war it won long ago. The Weight of Everything is a story about hunger, and the slow, reluctant work of setting things down.