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In the eternal struggle between luck and misfortune, one question remains: Is good luck enough to defeat bad luck? Or is there a greater power?"Ten Minutes" is a satirical, profound, and deeply moving novel that explores this conflict through an unconventional love story.Adam Ramsey, a software engineer who worships numbers, searches for a wife born on the rare leap day. He meets Lena Keynes, an economics professor who believes in the Seven Ancestors, negative energy, and ancient incantations.From their first meeting, life erupts into a series of astonishing and often hilarious disasters: a man dies laughing, a car bursts into flames, a singer drops dead on stage, and three nurses slip and fall during childbirth.They are blessed with twins: Sam, who inherits supernatural misfortune, and Clara, who inherits supernatural luck.Sam grows up lonely and ostracized until he meets Diana — a woman born on the exact same rare date and time. Their meeting ignites the final battle between misfortune and love... a battle that can only be won with one weapon: true love.A novel about family, sacrifice, and loss. About the superstitions we cling to in order to survive. And about the one unchanging truth: that love, whatever its form and whatever its cost, is stronger than misfortune, stronger than luck, and stronger than death itself.Ten minutes. That's all it takes to change everything.