The Space Between Staying
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**The Space Between Staying**
Mara Voss has spent her whole life perfecting the art of not needing anyone. Nathaniel Calloway has spent his learning to wait for what matters. When they collide in the glass towers of Chicago, he doesn't pursue her - he simply stays. And staying, it turns out, is the one thing her walls were never built to withstand. A story about the architecture of self-protection, and what happens when someone finally makes you want to take it apart.
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