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Devotion
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Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: 3ichael 7ambert
Published: Oct 1 2026
Pages: 52
Weight: 0.17
Height: 0.14 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
What if one of the people who changed your life was someone you never actually got to love?
Long before Michael Lambert Jr. understood what devotion meant, there was a girl.
She began as little more than a familiar face-his high-school girlfriend's best friend. Years later, their lives crossed again. What followed wasn't a conventional romance but a collection of seemingly ordinary moments that Michael would remember for more than a decade.
A greeting at JCPenney.
A critique of his music.
A bowling alley.
A handmade portrait.
A visit to her college.
A piano.
A moment alone on a couch when he couldn't make his move.
A birthday party filled with hundreds of people where only one guest seemed to matter.
And then she was gone.
What Michael initially experienced as romantic longing gradually became something much larger. After heartbreak had pushed him toward relationships and encounters that left him unfulfilled, his feelings for someone he genuinely admired forced him to reconsider what intimacy meant to him. He began running, working harder, creating more, demanding more from himself, and eventually pursuing a celibate path while searching for a connection that felt meaningful.
Years passed. He traveled. Their lives moved in different directions. She fell in love. Loss struck both of their worlds. There were unexpected encounters with her family, messages passed through other people, an attempted reconnection from a thousand miles away, and finally another opportunity to see her across a crowded room.
But Devotion isn't about whether Michael eventually gets the girl.
It's about realizing that he doesn't need to.
Told with vulnerability, humor, nostalgia, and the perspective that only years can provide, Devotion explores unrequited love, missed opportunities, idealization, sexuality, celibacy, ambition, grief, creativity, and the complicated difference between loving a person and loving what that person inspired within you.
It is ultimately a story about transformation-and the realization that someone doesn't have to remain in your life to leave something behind that lasts forever.
Some people are a lesson.
Some are a season.
And sometimes, a season changes the rest of your life.
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