About the book
A spoiler-light introduction.
In a community where help is never refused and courtesy is treated as law, kindness begins to look less like generosity than selection. No one needs to threaten anyone when every neighbour already understands what a good person ought to accept.
Opening The Courtesy Cycle, The Waiting Was a Kindness is a slow-burning folk-horror novel about moral drift, communal fear and the quiet violence hidden inside well-intentioned systems. The most dangerous rule is the one everybody calls care.
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