Haunted by grief and stalled ambition, Malcomb Erikson numbs himself with danger — white-water rivers, alpine descents, fleeting relationships — while refusing to build the life he promised himself after his best friend's death. He can't let go of Emma, the love shaped by their shared past, even as she clings to the safety of a future she's carefully planned without him. Across the ocean, Niamh Doherty escapes a volatile home in Belfast for the promise of reinvention in America, only to find herself repeating the patterns she fled. As Malcomb's unresolved guilt pulls these three lives into orbit, intimacy becomes as destabilizing as risk, and each must decide whether to keep choosing what feels familiar — or confront the truth that some losses are not accidents, and some damage cannot be undone. 

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