The Winter My Father Fell

By Jordan Vance

Nora Hale inspects old bridges, so she knows how things break. She has never measured the eighteen years since her mother died on a Montana river road, or the father she blamed for it.

Then a neighbor calls. Walt Hale slipped on the ice by his barn and lay in the snow for four hours before his old dog ran for help. Nora flies home to set up his care. Two weeks, she tells herself. Then back to Seattle and the biggest project of her career.

But the doctors have hard news about Walt's heart, and the storms close the road behind her. The house at the end of Seven Mile Road is full of things that don't fit the story Nora has carried since she was sixteen. A kitchen light that never goes off. A bronze coin in a dish by the door. A father who is patient and sober and nothing like the man she left.

Then, in a closet upstairs, she finds her mother's blue suitcase, still packed, and a sealed letter with her name on it.

Before the ice breaks on the creek, Nora will have to decide what she is willing to hear, and what she is finally ready to set down.

A tender, clean family drama about fathers and daughters and the weight we carry for the people we love.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HLX8LM8F
• ISBN13: 9798178790274
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"