The God Particle

Nora Callahan doesn't do impulsive. She's a strategist at a Geneva private bank-sharp, ambitious, and so tightly wound that her longest recent conversation was with her ficus plant. But on the evening of her twenty-ninth birthday, alone in a wine bar in the Old Town, she strikes up a conversation with a stranger in a CERN hoodie-and everything she thought she knew about her life starts to come undone. June Tsai is a particle physicist who searches for things the universe is hiding. She's brilliant, awkward, and so deeply alone that she's forgotten what it feels like to be known by another person. She is not prepared for Nora Callahan. They share a birthday. By closing time, they share something more-a connection so immediate and so unlikely that neither woman can walk away from it. What begins as a friendship deepens into a love affair that reshapes both their lives, pulling them out of their careful solitudes and into something messy, exhilarating, and real. But when a career opportunity threatens to put an ocean between them, Nora and June must face the question at the heart of every great love story: how much are you willing to rearrange for the person who changed everything? Set between the cobblestoned elegance of Geneva and the restless energy of New York, The God Particle is a sweeping, intelligent love story about two women who find, in each other, the force that holds everything together.