The Weight of Grace - Reflections from the Center is the second novel in The Weight Trilogy, following The Weight of Shadows - Reflections from the Edge. Where the first book explored the world through Karan's fractured inner landscape, Book II shifts to Diana's steady, clear-eyed voice-revealing the center of a marriage shaped by devotion, rupture, and the quiet work of healing.

Diana moves from Wisconsin to the quiet plains of Minnesota, where she and Karan build a life through the ordinary sacraments of partnership: long commutes and shared curries, small apartments and first mortgages, winter walks and the wonder of raising two daughters. But beneath this gentle domesticity runs a deeper current-Karan's growing depression, the "black dog" that pads silently through their home, and Diana's effort to hold the center without losing herself.

As shadows from Book I resurface, the fracture deepens: exhaustion, emotional distance, and finally Karan's collapse and stay in the Generose Unit. What follows is not sudden redemption but a slow reconstruction-AA meetings in a Savannah church basement, early-morning runs, fragile honesty, and a pilgrimage to Nepal where silence becomes its own teacher. Alongside his recovery, Diana undergoes her own transformation, evolving from scientist to yoga teacher, discovering grace not as perfection but as presence.

Their journey spans continents and crises-from Minnesota winters to rooftop nights in Mumbai, from family homes in Bhopal to the global stillness of the pandemic. Through each turning, Diana learns that grace is not the absence of struggle, but the resilience to meet it with open hands.

Poetic, intimate, and deeply human, The Weight of Grace illuminates what it means to stay-not out of duty, but out of love that has learned to breathe. It is a meditation on healing, belonging, and the quiet radiance that emerges when a heart learns to rest at the center.