Some people enter your life at exactly the wrong moment. Michael knows this. He has spent years showing up for people, bending himself around whoever he is with, hoping that this time it will be different. And then, on a beach in Ibiza, he meets Anna. What follows is not a simple love story. It is something quieter, harder and more honest than that. Because Anna is not free. And Michael cannot rescue her,  nobody can. But he can stay. And sometimes that is everything.

The Gentle Orbit is a story about coercive control, domestic abuse, the difference between rescuing someone and truly being there for them, and the quiet courage it takes to finally choose a different life. It is also the most personal thing Johan M Raubal has ever written. (Book in image is a pre-release edition with a dust jacket - this book is a PPC version - i.e. printed cover)