Who orbits who.
An interactive map of three generations — filter by family, romance, conflict, and the turning points that bind them.
Tap a portrait to highlight every connection that touches them. Use the filters to focus on family, romance, conflict, or turning points.
The full ledger
The central bond. Recognition, obsession, and forty years of choosing each other on purpose.
Father and daughter. The longest argument of his life — and the only one he ever loses on purpose.
Mother and daughter. The relationship the novel hinges on. The one Raven invents from scratch.
The first uncomplicated love story in the bloodline.
The line Mira refuses to repeat.
Forty years of tea, silence, and unspoken loyalty.
The son neither of them planned on. The proof Jasper didn't know he needed.
The first secret Mira ever kept. The first relationship that was hers alone.
Hunter and hunted. Eventually, neither. Eventually, both.
Twenty years of near-misses. One long conversation.
Grandfather and granddaughter. The softest relationship in the entire novel.
The first time Raven has ever been called Grandma. She cries for an hour.
The son-in-law who refuses to be afraid. The father-in-law who decides — silently — that he stays.
Siblings in everything but blood. Each other's first and last witness.