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N° de ref. del artículo L2-9798233685965
- Título
- The Middle of Us
- Autor
- Cross, Lory
- Editorial
- Lory Cross Publications
- Año de publicación
- 2026
- Estado
- New
- Encuadernación
- PAP
- Idioma
- inglés
- ISBN 13
- 9798233685965
- Peso del artículo
- 308 gramos
Two people who should cancel each other out fall wildly, stubbornly, beautifully in love. Hollis Brooks is a sharp-tongued policy strategist who trusts data more than doctrine. Jack Coleman is a grease-knuckled mechanic who moonlights at a small church where his sermons are short and honest. They don't marry because they agree-they marry because their arguments end with hands finding hands. When a baby arrives and the world starts labeling, the fault lines widen.
(Opposites Attract - Political Divide Romance - Interfaith Tension - Smart & Sassy × Quiet & Steady - Found Family - Marriage in Crisis - Motherhood vs Ambition - Slow-Build Domestic Intimacy)
Across twenty chapters, their love defies tidy categories. A neighborhood debate, a stalled car, and a dare of a kiss light the fuse. Jack believes in lighthouses. Hollis builds bridges. Their domestic life is both messy and steamy, and full of landmines: a church board that wants Jack's signature under fences; a national advocacy offer in Atlanta that wants Hollis on a plane by summer; a family table where grace sounds like judgment. When labor begins like a rumor and their daughter arrives, the stakes sharpen. Postpartum haze collides with public pressure. Hollis's inbox floods with invitations from causes she believes in-ones that don't believe in her marriage. Jack's shop lease is in jeopardy; the pulpit keeps demanding a certainty he won't fake.
On a primetime panel, a microphone tries to make Hollis a convert. Instead, she becomes what she's always been: a builder. "I didn't marry a faith. I married a man," she says. The clip explodes. Labels do, too. A grieving mother finds Jack outside the church to say the quiet part out loud-love doesn't always save. Jack answers the only way he knows how: presence.
The middle act is a season of almosts: almost moving south, almost signing a creed, almost quitting each other. Instead, they choose softness over surrender. Every Friday, Hollis writes letters on a park bench. Jack writes the kind of prayers that don't need God's name to work. Their daughter Lena becomes a tiny philosopher-"God is a hug"-as the world demands clarity. Jack turns a complaint into Listening Night, where neighbors, teachers, and churchgoers tell one lived story before one statistic.
When Jack is asked to officiate a wedding, the board threatens his title. When Hollis's sister calls from an ER, love reroutes the night. They choose people over optics and let the chips fall. Jack steps down from payroll and up to the city's need, starting community circles and publishing essays about chairs pulled out for the unsure. Hollis writes the book she swore she wouldn't-not a conversion arc, but a testament to tenderness without certainty. Online strangers argue over it. One reader simply writes: "I don't agree with her, but I feel less alone."
The final act brings light without a finish line. A parent's complaint about "God is a hug" sparks a forum. A doctrinal packet becomes a blank page. A TV crew turns into documentation, not direction. Onstage together, they offer the ten practices that saved them: make a table, not a stage; start with names; keep a Sabbath from certainty; let each other be second drafts. Then they walk home, past the sycamore they call Tree Friend, to a fridge still holding a stick-figure sun.
In the Catskills, where things once cracked, they return with cocoa and a telescope, answering the only question that still matters: You don't need to name the light to walk toward it. He believes in her. She believes in them. Their daughter believes the sky is close enough to keep an eye on.
Their Happily Ever After isn't a victory lap-it's ordinary, chosen, and true: a kitchen table, a shared calendar, a bedtime prayer to the nameless light, and two voices whispering the vow they finally learned how to keep-stay, and change, together.
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