The Pale King BOTY_2025 Cassie is devastated

Cassie is devastated

From the bestselling author of Einstein's Dreams—“an elegant and moving paean to our spiritual quest for meaning in an age of science" (The New York Times Book Review)

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she realizes that she could become James’s savior—or his downfall

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