Time slips away from us all, until there's no time left.

If there was one thing that Adam knew, it was that Granny Lativia was as big as the world and twice as enduring. She'd saved him and his three best friends from being sold to adoptive families and kept them together over the years despite everything the world threw at them.

When had she gotten small? And fragile?

Granny Lativia's fall and broken foot shook the foundations of Adam's life as he helped her sell her home and move to Japan to be closer to them all. Question was whether or not Adam could handle Granny Lativia all up in his business in the middle of big deals, new romance, and his painful awareness that she wasn't the eternal matriarch he'd thought she was for so long.