title: Dream of an Inland Sea
author:  Karen Leh 
description: Karen Leh is a native of the Colorado plains and a graduate of the Iowa Writers Workshop. She has worked in book and magazine publishing and lives near Boulder, Colorado, with her partner and twin sons.
zlib_text: **All You Need is Love**
  
   **The Principles of Love, Book Four**
  
   **Emily Franklin**
  
   _For my grandparents,_
  
   _who continue to teach me so much about love_
  
   **Contents**
  
  Chapter One
  
  Chapter Two
  
  Chapter Three
  
  Chapter Four
  
  Chapter Five
  
  Chapter Six
  
  Chapter Seven
  
  Chapter Eight
  
  Chapter Nine
  
  Chapter Ten
  
  Chapter Eleven
  
  Chapter Twelve
  
  Chapter Thirteen
  
  Chapter Fourteen
  
  Chapter Fifteen
  
  Acknowledgments
  
  Preview: _Summer of Love_
  
  About the Author
  
   **Chapter One**
  
  I currently have the feeling that I’m living in some twisted dream: I keep
  waiting to wake up and find out everything that’s happened in the past days —
  okay, nearly a week — was just some side-effect of bad sushi.
  
  Except that I don’t really like sushi (okay, I like the California rolls, but
  that’s all). And so the chances of suffering a long-term raw fish-induced
  nightmare session are slim. The reality of my life right now is this: I’m
  curled up in bed under my plain white sheets pretending to sleep so my dad
  does