Community continues the Marduke Manor series with a story of quiet resistance, unexpected connection, and the long arc of healing.

Adam Baumgarten spent his career as a bystander. While everyone around him was in the midst of drama, he silently cleaned up the messes the other attorneys left behind. Clients trust him because he rarely has to court, but if he does, judges and clerks adore him. When his problematic law firm teeters on the brink of bankruptcy, he sees a way out at a different firm. It doesn't hurt that the girl he's had a crush on for years works there, and she's still single.

Ellie is brilliant, neurodivergent, and has learned her place within law firm dynamics. But somehow, Adam has her questioning everything she thought she knew. Together, they navigate legal battles, workplace reckoning, and the slow unfolding of intimacy. Just when Adam finally feels it's safe to breathe, tragedy strikes, forcing him to reevaluate everything he thought he knew about family, faith, and belonging.

At Marduke Manor, amid layered traditions and quiet sanctuary, Adam and Ellie begin to imagine a life built not on survival, but on community.

And don't worry...Marduke Manor 6 still will update you on what the rest of the family is up to, and now that Matt Marduke is Pope Joseph, there's still plenty of family drama.