{"title":"The Max Trilogy","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"lost-in-rotterdam","title":"Lost in Rotterdam","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMax Winkelaar has spent his entire life trying to earn love he should have received freely. Born premature in Rotterdam - a city rebuilt from the rubble of the Second World War - he learns early that survival means performance, that belonging requires achievement, that love comes with conditions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eThrough relationship after relationship, he chases the approval that always stays just out of reach. When burnout breaks him at twenty-two, he finally says it to his mother's face, in her own living room, every sentence he has been assembling since he was a child. She tells him to get out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSome cities rebuild after destruction. Some people do too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLost in Rotterdam\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book in The Max Trilogy, a literary exploration of conditional love, burnout, and the courage it takes to leave everything behind.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Limerick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53722529300827,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9954\/0571\/files\/LostinRotterdamBookCover.png?v=1785930411"},{"product_id":"love-in-translation","title":"Love in Translation","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMax thought leaving Rotterdam would solve everything. Instead, he discovers that geography doesn't fix psychology.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eIn Greenville, South Carolina, he finds freedom, and immediately fills it with excess. More parties, more drinks, more women, more of everything he denied himself in the Netherlands. When he meets Dori, a Venezuelan woman carrying her family's asylum case and her own wounds, he thinks he's finally found something real.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMax is still running from conditional love while Dori is still serving to earn it. Both are playing roles, both are protecting themselves, and neither knows how to stop. So he does what he has always done. He leaves, all at once, with a good reason.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLove in Translation\u003c\/em\u003e is the second book in The Max Trilogy, exploring how taking what we want without building what we need leaves us emptier than before. Freedom without foundation is just another kind of cage.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Limerick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53722532282715,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9954\/0571\/files\/LoveinTranslationBookCover.png?v=1785930461"},{"product_id":"home-at-last","title":"Home at Last","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eMax Winkelaar has lost everything. Luna, the woman who saw through all his patterns. Diego, his best friend who couldn't watch him self-destruct anymore. His job, his community, his carefully constructed life in Rotterdam.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAt rock bottom, Max finally sees the pattern he's been repeating since childhood: keeping one foot out the door, protecting himself from full vulnerability, sabotaging relationships before they can hurt him. Earning love didn't work. Taking love didn't work. There's only one option left: becoming whole enough to receive it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHome at Last\u003c\/em\u003e is the final book in The Max Trilogy, a story about what happens when you stop running from yourself and start building toward something real. It takes eight years, two continents and everything he had, to learn that the whole difference is a man who opens the door instead of letting it close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal\" dir=\"ltr\"\u003eRotterdam rebuilt itself from the rubble. So can Max.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Paul Limerick","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53722535985499,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1027\/9954\/0571\/files\/HomeatLastBookCover_fa048000-2343-42cd-93cd-60d8bae25260.png?v=1785930536"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.paulwlimerick.com\/collections\/the-max-trilogy.oembed","provider":"Paul W. Limerick's Book Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}