The Quiet After

Isabella Clarke is nineteen, eighteen months into remission, and completely unable to start living. Haunted by the death of her closest friend from the oncology ward, she volunteers at a hospice and meets George Alcott — a dying, sharp-tongued retired teacher who offers her a deal she can't refuse. He needs someone to deliver a box of unsent letters to his estranged daughter. But the errand will force Isabella to confront truths about guilt, survival, and what it really costs to waste a life you were lucky enough to keep.