Still, by Design.

By: Maxwell, Avery Lane

At a fifteen-room inn at the foot of a Colorado mountain, a man who mistook motion for purpose keeps time with a building that has outlived everyone who built it. Mornings begin the same way: the kettle, two cups set out without thinking, the gold light crossing the floor one plank at a time.

When the inn's keeper asks him to stay, not as help but as something closer to family, he must decide whether he is ready to belong to a place, and to the people who keep arriving at its door.

Still, by Design. is the world before the reckoning, the first room in a larger house. A novel about recovery, belonging, and the slow architecture of a life rebuilt, told in lyrical vignettes across a year of seasons at nine thousand feet.

Also available as an audiobook, read by the author.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0G494NN6Q
• ISBN13: 9798993725031
• Release Date: October 2025
• Publisher: Galena House Publishing
• Length: 398 Pages
• Weight: 1.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.0"