Second Chances

Max Landon keeps the servers running and the lights on — everyone's but his own. A systems administrator who's learned to function while the gray sits heavy behind his eyes, he's decided he's simply too broken to be loved. Claire Browell came to Ann Arbor to start over. Two years a widow, she still talks to her husband's photograph, still carries him in the quiet hours. Then a Friday-night server crash strands them in the same room, and two carefully managed lives begin, against all caution, to leak light. What follows isn't a story about being fixed. It's about becoming whole differently. A love story about depression and grief that refuses easy answers — and about the Japanese art of mending broken pottery with gold, so the cracks become the most beautiful part. Sometimes love is the gold that holds you together.

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