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Cover of The Weight of Almost by Regina Elaine
Literary Fiction2023

The Weight of Almost

Some silences are louder than anything ever said.

When Mara returns to her childhood home after her mother's death, she discovers a box of unsent letters — and the story of a woman she never knew. A novel about grief, inheritance, and the lives we almost lived.

312 pages
Meridian Press

"A quietly devastating debut. Regina Elaine writes with the precision of a surgeon and the tenderness of a poet."

Literary Review

"I read it in one sitting and cried twice. Highly recommended."

Goodreads Reader
Cover of Every Light We Leave by Regina Elaine
Literary Fiction2025

Every Light We Leave

The things we carry are never the things we think.

Two strangers meet on a night train crossing the Alps. By morning, each will have given the other something they cannot take back. A meditation on chance, connection, and the stories we tell ourselves about who we are.

278 pages
Meridian Press

"Elaine's prose is luminous. Every sentence earns its place."

The Sunday Times

"A masterclass in restraint. The ending will stay with you for weeks."

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The Cartography of Forgetting

Spring 2027

A cartographer mapping a remote island begins to suspect the landscape is changing — not the island, but her memory of it. A novel about loss, perception, and the unreliable geography of the mind.

Regina Elaine

Literary fiction that lingers long after the last page.

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