Rose À Charlitte

The weight of centuries falls on one man's shoulders. Vesper Nimmo carries his great-grandfather's sin: a promise made and broken, a family displaced, a wound that has never healed. A hundred and fifty years after the Acadian Deportation, he leaves Boston for Nova Scotia's French Shore, driven by an obligation he barely understands and a restlessness he cannot name. There he finds Rose à Charlitte, managing an inn in a community that remembers everything. She is his Evangeline, the woman in the poem who searched the continent for her lost love. But Rose is no ghost. She is fierce, practical, and weary of carrying her people's grief. When she and Vesper fall in love, they discover that some burdens cannot be shared until they are first laid down. To love each other, they must first reckon with what their families, and their nations, have done. This is a novel about the debts we inherit and whether they can ever truly be paid.