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She runs a hotel with wit, grace, and just enough caffeine to hide the exhaustion beneath her calm. After a lifetime of loss — her father's suicide, her brother's overdose, and a marriage that ended in betrayal — she's built a life that finally feels safe, if not exactly fulfilled.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBut one quiet morning, during what should have been a routine meditation, Dak slips into something impossible — a vivid vision where she glimpses every version of herself she could have been. When she chooses the life where nothing bad ever happened, she finds everything she thought she wanted: wealth, fame, ease... and an emptiness she can't unsee.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBack in her real life, Dak begins to look at everything differently — her work, her friends, even the man who might be worth trusting. 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