The Gravity Broker's Last Weighing

The Otherwise Novels

The Gravity Broker's Last Weighing

On Desdemera, gravity is leased by the kilogram. Grief is the one weight no broker can transfer.

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Gravity determines everything on Desdemera: where a person can live, how much effort standing requires, and how much of the colony they may reach.

Tomas Pel once broke the Guild's oldest rule. He transferred forty kilograms of gravity so his dying wife could walk. The Guild revoked his license, but it never stopped collecting the debt.

Now his daughter Suri has entered the apprenticeship that could restore their family name. She is brilliant with the brass scales, unafraid of the colony's crushing lower zones, and determined to repair her father's record without erasing the reason he broke it.

When the Guild offers a clean ledger at a terrible moral price, father and daughter face one final weighing. The scale before them can measure more than mass, and the truth has been growing heavier for years.

A morally exact speculative novel about inherited debt, unequal worlds, and the burdens love refuses to surrender.

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Series
The Otherwise Novels
Availability
In development
Language
English
Publisher
LPH98.lifestyle
Author
L.P.H. Nordhaven
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A complete standalone novel