Book details
- Author: Ngozi Bolin
- Publisher: Pantraxxa LLC
- Genre: Women’s fiction
- Published: May 18, 2025
- Length: 337 pages (hardcover)
- Formats: Hardcover, paperback, Kindle, audiobook
- ISBN-13: 978-1967733231
- Language: English
The Weight of Water Lilies
A novel by Ngozi Bolin
The Weight of Water Lilies is a small-town women’s fiction novel by Ngozi Bolin, published by Pantraxxa. Trauma therapist Leona Dorsey returns to the Southern mountain town of Halcyon Lake to settle her grandmother’s estate and ends up restoring a ruined garden and the community around it.
About the book
Leona Dorsey plans to stay in Halcyon Lake only long enough to handle her grandmother’s estate. The late Mama Jo has other plans.
The once-beautiful Waterlily Grove garden has fallen into ruin, and so has the community it used to nurture. To restore it, Leona has to face her family’s scandalous legacy, old wounds, and an unexpected reunion with Jude Merrick, the town’s newspaper editor.
As secrets surface and old truths unravel, the work becomes a deeper reckoning, one that asks whether healing the land might help heal the heart.
Who this book is for
Readers of atmospheric, emotional fiction about family and second chances. The publisher recommends it to fans of Kristin Hannah, Kate Morton and Ann Napolitano.
Themes
- Grief, healing and second chances
- Intergenerational trauma and family secrets
- Community and belonging
- The redemptive power of nature
Frequently asked questions
Trauma therapist Leona Dorsey returns to Halcyon Lake to handle her grandmother’s estate. Restoring the ruined Waterlily Grove garden forces her to confront her family’s past and reunites her with Jude Merrick, the town’s newspaper editor.
It is small-town women’s fiction about grief, healing and second chances.
Ngozi Bolin, an attorney and multigenre author whose fiction is published by Pantraxxa.
The hardcover edition is 337 pages.
Hardcover, paperback, Kindle and audiobook.
All formats are available on Amazon.
About the author
Ngozi E. Bolin, Esq. is an attorney and multigenre author whose work spans legal guides, spiritual fiction, romance and contemporary women’s literature. She has more than three decades of litigation experience across New York and California.
