The Weight of Unwritten Things

Julian Vane has a reputation, a deadline, and 812 words.

Tessa Brand has a finished manuscript, no audience, and the exact skill his publisher needs. When she is hired to complete Julian’s long-awaited novel, the arrangement begins as a professional contingency and becomes something neither writer can control cleanly.

As sentences, characters, and entire sections begin passing between them, Julian and Tessa must decide who owns the work, who deserves the credit, and whether the best book either of them can produce can still belong entirely to one person.