mushroomsatnite
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Victoria "Tori" Perez has spent 28 years doing everything right: marrying her dependable college sweetheart, pursuing a doctoral degree, and building the kind of life that makes everyone proud except herself.
When the quiet ache of disconnection becomes unbearable, she walks away from her marriage, her PhD program, and her Texas hometown in a desperate attempt to breathe again.
A nonprofit job offer in Los Angeles and a room in a quirky lemon‑tree‑shaded house give her a chance to rebuild from scratch, surrounded by sharp, tender roommates who challenge her ideas of family and home. On tour with a world‑famous musician whose onstage fearlessness hides her own private fragility, Tori is forced to confront the truths she's always avoided about love, desire, and the life she actually wants.
As stage lights blur into new cities and time zones, she must decide whether she can finally choose herself without losing the people - and the woman - she has come to love.