The Laws of Gravity
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"We don't need a savior. We just need to get through the week."
Twenty-four-year-old Adeline Lewis is the gravity holding her family together. Since their mother left to "find herself" in the New Mexico desert, Adeline has been the one signing permission slips, budgeting down to the last penny, and keeping her five siblings safe in a world that feels like it’s in constant free-fall.
Her life is a finely tuned choreography of survival, a "lifeboat" built on sibling loyalty and the rule of Us against the world. But beneath her formidable exterior, she is haunted by the fear that her family is a library book the world will eventually demand back.
Adeline has no room for herself, let alone love. Then she meets Mark. A thirty-eight-year-old litigation attorney who lives in a "hollow" world of marble and glass, Mark sees the fierce architect beneath Adeline’s exhaustion. He doesn’t want to rescue her; he wants to be the ballast. By offering the "technical support" to reinforce her crumbling world—from rotting porch steps to iron-clad legal petitions—he dares Adeline to stop surviving and finally start designing a life that is built to last.
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- Part 1 of The Laws of Gravity