The Tiger's Tale

Kat Morrison has built her world around taking care of everyone else. As a freelance web designer in Leafwood Falls, Vermont, she's perfected the art of juggling client deadlines while caring for her mother Rose and her daughter Emma. Kat's days are a carefully orchestrated dance of doctor appointments, work commitments, and family needs. But Rose has always been a storyteller, and her enchanting tales of Luna and her magical tiger have become a feature of monthly story nights at Oak & Ink Bookshop, where the whole community gathers to hear about adventures in their own backyard. Until everything starts to change. Between Rose's increasingly fragile grip on the present, Emma's growing restlessness, and Ben Walsh, the thoughtful parks department worker who keeps showing up exactly when Kat needs him most, Kat's perfectly controlled life begins to unravel. As the community rallies around Rose's magical stories and Emma faces her own crossroads, Kat must choose between the safety of staying in control and the terrifying possibility of letting others help. With her carefully constructed world shifting beneath her feet, Kat discovers that the hardest person to take care of might be herself.