Mind Palace

Samuel Wright spent twenty-eight years building a fortress of law and logic, rising to prominence as a Supreme Court practitioner. His mind palace was impeccable—every case filed away, every precedent catalogued, every argument perfected. But at sixty-four, he discovers that a life of order is not the same as a life of meaning. When an old friend invites him to Paris, Samuel arrives at the Ritz Hotel expecting solitude and rest. Instead, he meets Isabelle Mercier, a woman who abandoned a successful consulting career to pursue what actually makes her happy—and who asks him the one question he can't answer: What do you want? From the libraries of Paris to the streets of Concord, from a surgeon's recovery room in Lyon to an apartment in the Marais, Samuel and Isabelle discover that love isn't built on certainty—it's built on presence. As they navigate the architecture of their own lives, they learn that the most important law is the one written by the heart: love never ends. It simply transforms into new shapes. A meditation on second chances, the courage to reimagine yourself, and the discovery that the structures we build to protect ourselves are meant to be walked through, not lived in forever.