Warm Planet

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“Even a vanished world leaves a gravity you can’t escape.” Tulsa grew up on her own warm planet—a world dreamed into being by her famous aunt, the controversial writer Paola Wakefield, and kept in orbit by a circle of unforgettable characters. There was her great-grandmother, in love with all things French and speaking with a French accent despite never having been there. Her grandfather, who swore he was part Cherokee though his ancestry was dubious at best. Her sweet-natured sister, trailed by a string of hopeless boyfriends who inevitably fell for Tulsa. “Uncle” Alex, who wasn’t an uncle at all. And Max—who stumbled into her world one afternoon while she was acting out a scene of imagination, and simply never left. It was a place bright with imagination, delicious freedom, and starlit possibility. Then, just at the threshold of womanhood, disaster struck, and everything she loved collapsed. Certain her world was gone forever, Tulsa fled—only to find herself adrift in a turbulent galaxy called adulthood, stripped of the wonder and innocence that once came as naturally for her as breathing. Eight years later, the unexpected inheritance of her aunt’s Victorian mansion pulls her back to the planet she thought had vanished forever. Its rooms are still fragrant with memory, its shadows heavy with all that has faded and died. She tells herself there’s nothing here worth finding—yet, like a hidden planet still in its orbit, the past waits… quietly turning in the dark, its gravity compelling, lush with unforeseen surprises. **For readers drawn to warm, nostalgic tales rich with imagination, The Warm Planet orbits between the radiance of an extraordinary childhood and the shadows of all that is lost. Part of Evelyn M. Exley’s Legacy Collection, it is a tender meditation on belonging, the self-made armor of independence, and the subtle gravity of second chances.